Fast integral equation methods for the Laplace-Beltrami equation on the sphere

Integral equation methods for solving the Laplace-Beltrami equation on the unit sphere in the presence of multiple “islands” are presented. The surface of the sphere is first mapped to a multiply-connected region in the complex plane via a stereographic projection. After discretizing the integral eq...

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Veröffentlicht in:Advances in computational mathematics 2014-04, Vol.40 (2), p.577-596
Hauptverfasser: Kropinski, Mary Catherine A., Nigam, Nilima
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Integral equation methods for solving the Laplace-Beltrami equation on the unit sphere in the presence of multiple “islands” are presented. The surface of the sphere is first mapped to a multiply-connected region in the complex plane via a stereographic projection. After discretizing the integral equation, the resulting dense linear system is solved iteratively using the fast multipole method for the 2D Coulomb potential in order to calculate the matrix-vector products. This numerical scheme requires only O ( N ) operations, where N is the number of nodes in the discretization of the boundary. The performance of the method is demonstrated on several examples.
ISSN:1019-7168
1572-9044
DOI:10.1007/s10444-013-9319-y