The numerical approximation of a delta function with application to level set methods

DOI10.1016/j.jcp.2005.05.005zbMath1086.65503OpenAlexW2004774877MaRDI QIDQ2572782

Publication date: 4 November 2005

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2005.05.005

zbMATH Keywords

numerical examples elliptic equations Poisson equation level set methods discontinuous source terms delta function approximations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Algorithms for approximation of functions (65D15) Finite difference methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N06) Numerical solution of boundary value problems involving ordinary differential equations (65L10) Linear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations (34B05)

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