A proof that a discrete delta function is second-order accurate

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2007.11.004zbMath1136.65017MaRDI QIDQ2478509

J. Thomas Beale

Publication date: 28 March 2008

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2007.11.004

zbMATH Keywords

quadrature rule; surface integral; level set function; discrete delta function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

46F10: Operations with distributions and generalized functions

65D15: Algorithms for approximation of functions

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