Spectral method for matching exterior and interior elliptic problems

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2006.12.005zbMATH Open1122.65117arXiv0705.0643OpenAlexW2168475003MaRDI QIDQ996514FDOQ996514

Authors: Piotr Boronski 

Publication date: 14 September 2007

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

Abstract: A spectral method is described for solving coupled elliptic problems on an interior and an exterior domain. The method is formulated and tested on the two-dimensional interior Poisson and exterior Laplace problems, whose solutions and their normal derivatives are required to be continuous across the interface. A complete basis of homogeneous solutions for the interior and exterior regions, corresponding to all possible Dirichlet boundary values at the interface, are calculated in a preprocessing step. This basis is used to construct the influence matrix which serves to transform the coupled boundary conditions into conditions on the interior problem. Chebyshev approximations are used to represent both the interior solutions and the boundary values. A standard Chebyshev spectral method is used to calculate the interior solutions. The exterior harmonic solutions are calculated as the convolution of the free-space Green's function with a surface density; this surface density is itself the solution to an integral equation which has an analytic solution when the boundary values are given as a Chebyshev expansion. Properties of Chebyshev approximations insure that the basis of exterior harmonic functions represents the external near-boundary solutions uniformly. The method is tested by calculating the electrostatic potential resulting from charge distributions in a rectangle. The resulting influence matrix is well-conditioned and solutions converge exponentially as the resolution is increased. The generalization of this approach to three-dimensional problems is discussed, in particular the magnetohydrodynamic equations in a finite cylindrical domain surrounded by a vacuum.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0705.0643

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zbMATH Keywords

numerical examplesChebyshev polynomialsexterior problemGreen's functionsharmonic functionsPoisson equationLaplace equationmagnetohydrodynamicsboundary integral methodspectral methodinfluence matrixelectrostatic potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Spectral, collocation and related methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N35) Boundary element methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N38) Spectral methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M22) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05)

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Uses Software

• GeoFEM
• Matlab
• Schwarz-Christoffel
• SC Toolbox

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