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A Steklov-spectral approach for solutions of Dirichlet and Robin boundary value problems

Numerical Analysis 2022-09-20 v1 Numerical Analysis Analysis of PDEs Spectral Theory

Abstract

In this paper we revisit an approach pioneered by Auchmuty to approximate solutions of the Laplace- Robin boundary value problem. We demonstrate the efficacy of this approach on a large class of non-tensorial domains, in contrast with other spectral approaches for such problems. We establish a spectral approximation theorem showing an exponential fast numerical evaluation with regards to the number of Steklov eigenfunctions used, for smooth domains and smooth boundary data. A polynomial fast numerical evaluation is observed for either non-smooth domains or non-smooth boundary data. We additionally prove a new result on the regularity of the Steklov eigenfunctions, depending on the regularity of the domain boundary. We describe three numerical methods to compute Steklov eigenfunctions.

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@article{arxiv.2209.08405,
  title  = {A Steklov-spectral approach for solutions of Dirichlet and Robin boundary value problems},
  author = {Kthim Imeri and Nilima Nigam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.08405},
  year   = {2022}
}