New formulations for interface problems in polar coordinates

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 224-245

  Li, Zhilin ^a   Wang, Wei Cheng ^b   Chern, I Liang ^c   Lai, Ming Chih ^d  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Delta function; Discontinuous coefficients; Fast Poisson solver; Immersed interface method; Interface problems; Level set function; Polar coordinates; Singular source; Smooth extension

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FUNCTIONS; INTERPOLATION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POISSON EQUATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SET THEORY; THEOREM PROVING;

DELTA FUNCTION; INTERFACE PROBLEMS; LAPLACIAN OPERATOR; POLAR COORDINATES;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

EID: 1842459571     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S106482750139618X     Document Type: Article

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