Properties of discrete delta functions and local convergence of the immersed boundary method

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2986-3015

  Liu, Yang ^a   Mori, Yoichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete delta function; Immersed boundary method; Moment order; Smoothing order

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT COEFFICIENTS; CONVERGENCE PROPERTIES; DIFFERENTIAL OPERATORS; DISCRETIZATIONS; ELLIPTIC PROBLEM; FINITE-DIFFERENCE DISCRETIZATION; IMMERSED BOUNDARY METHODS; INTERNAL INTERFACES; LOCAL CONVERGENCE; MOMENT ORDER; NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS; REGULAR GRIDS; SINGULAR SOURCES; SMOOTHING ORDER;

MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

DELTA FUNCTIONS;

EID: 84871538754     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/110836699     Document Type: Article

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