Extending the fast multipole method to charges inside or outside a dielectric sphere

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 223, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 846-864

  Cai, Wei ^a   Deng, Shaozhong ^a   Jacobs, Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dielectric sphere; Fast multipole method; Image charge

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC SPHERES; ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIALS; FAST-MULTIPOLE METHODS; IMAGE CHARGES; IMAGE POINTS; NOVEL METHODS; POINT CHARGE; REACTION POTENTIAL; RELATIVE ERRORS; SOURCE POINTS;

SPHERES;

EID: 33947099467     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.10.019     Document Type: Article

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