Direct solution of Poisson's equation in cylindrically symmetric geometry: A fast algorithm

DOI10.1016/0021-9991(85)90187-1zbMATH Open0555.65069OpenAlexW2027476987MaRDI QIDQ760781FDOQ760781

Authors: E. E. Kunhardt, Poul Frederick Williams 

Publication date: 1985

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0021-9991(85)90187-1

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zbMATH Keywords

stabilitycubic splinesdirect methodsfast Fourier transformsPoisson's equationError

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Direct numerical methods for linear systems and matrix inversion (65F05) Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Numerical solution of discretized equations for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N22)

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• The use of cubic splines in the solution of two-point boundary value problems
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