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A robust solver for elliptic PDEs in 3D complex geometries

Numerical Analysis 2021-07-07 v4 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

We develop a boundary integral equation solver for elliptic partial differential equations on complex \threed geometries. Our method is efficient, high-order accurate and robustly handles complex geometries. A key component is our singular and near-singular layer potential evaluation scheme, \qbkix: a simple extrapolation of the solution along a line to the boundary. We present a series of geometry-processing algorithms required for \qbkix to run efficiently with accuracy guarantees on arbitrary geometries and an adaptive upsampling scheme based on a iteration-free heuristic for quadrature error. We validate the accuracy and performance with a series of numerical tests and compare our approach to a competing local evaluation method.

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@article{arxiv.2002.04143,
  title  = {A robust solver for elliptic PDEs in 3D complex geometries},
  author = {Matthew J. Morse and Abtin Rahimian and Denis Zorin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.04143},
  year   = {2021}
}
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