A relation between the logarithmic capacity and the condition number of the BEM-matrices

Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 665-680

  Dijkstra, W ^a   Mattheij, R M M ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Boundary element method; Laplace problem; Logarithmic capacity

Indexed keywords

LAPLACE PROBLEM; LOGARITHMIC CAPACITY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL DOMAIN;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; BOUNDARY INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LAPLACE EQUATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; BOUNDARY INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LAPLACE EQUATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL METHODS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 34447536647     PISSN: 10698299     EISSN: 10990887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cnm.917     Document Type: Article

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