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

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2005.05.005MaRDI QIDQ2572782zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter Smereka

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 exampleselliptic equationsPoisson equationlevel set methodsdiscontinuous source termsdelta function approximations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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