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Non-singular Green's functions for the unbounded Poisson equation in one, two and three dimensions

Analysis of PDEs 2020-07-10 v3 Computational Physics

Abstract

This paper is a revised version of the original paper of same title--published in Applied Mathematics Letters 89--containing some corrections and clarifications to the original text. We derive non-singular Green's functions for the unbounded Poisson equation in one, two and three dimensions, using a cut-off function in the Fourier domain to impose a smallest length scale when deriving the Green's function. The resulting non-singular Green's functions are relevant to applications which are restricted to a minimum resolved length scale (e.g. a mesh size h) and thus cannot handle the singular Green's function of the continuous Poisson equation. We furthermore derive the gradient vector of the non-singular Green's function, as this is useful in applications where the Poisson equation represents potential functions of a vector field.

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@article{arxiv.1704.00704,
  title  = {Non-singular Green's functions for the unbounded Poisson equation in one, two and three dimensions},
  author = {Mads Mølholm Hejlesen and Grégoire Winckelmans and Jens Honoré Walther},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.00704},
  year   = {2020}
}