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Satellites mapping the spatial variations of the gravitational or magnetic fields of the Earth or other planets ideally fly on polar orbits, uniformly covering the entire globe. Thus, potential fields on the sphere are usually expressed in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-06-17 Frederik J. Simons , F. A. Dahlen

Solutions for a class of wave equations with effective potentials are obtained by a method of a Laplace-transform. Quasinormal modes appear naturally in the solutions only in a spatially truncated form; their coefficients are uniquely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikodem Szpak

We introduce an alternative to the method of matched asymptotic expansions. In the "traditional" implementation, approximate solutions, valid in different (but overlapping) regions are matched by using "intermediate" variables. Here we…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-01-23 Luiz M. Faria , Rodolfo R. Rosales

This work addresses the regularity of solutions for a nonlocal diffusion equation over the space of periodic distributions. The spatial operator for the nonlocal diffusion equation is given by a nonlocal Laplace operator with a compactly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Ilyas Mustapha , Bacim Alali , Nathan Albin

We introduce a new variational method for the numerical homogenization of divergence form elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic equations with arbitrary rough ($L^\infty$) coefficients. Our method does not rely on concepts of ergodicity or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Houman Owhadi , Lei Zhang , Leonid Berlyand

A theory for wave mechanical systems with local inversion and translation symmetries is developed employing the two-dimensional solution space of the stationary Schr\"odinger equation. The local symmetries of the potential are encoded into…

A study is undertaken to investigate an analytical solution for the N-dimensional Schr\"{o}dinger equation with the Morse potential based on the Laplace transformation method. The results show that in the Pekeris approximation, the radial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 S. Miraboutalebi , L. Rajaei

We consider Backus's problem in geophysics. This consists in reconstructing a harmonic potential outside the Earth when the intensity of the related field is measured on the Earth's surface. Thus, the boundary condition is (severely)…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-30 Toru Kan , Rolando Magnanini , Michiaki Onodera

Scalar, vector and tensor harmonics on the three-sphere were introduced originally to facilitate the study of various problems in gravitational physics. These harmonics are defined as eigenfunctions of the covariant Laplace operator which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-01 Lee Lindblom , Nicholas W. Taylor , Fan Zhang

This paper develops a multipole expansion method for the quasi-periodic elastic single layer potential $\mathcal{S}_D^{\alpha,0}$ associated with the Kelvin tensor in one-dimensional periodic arrays. A key step in this approach is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Xin Feng

In the present paper, an algorithm for the numerical solution of the external Dirichlet generalized harmonic problem for a sphere by the method of probabilistic solution (MPS) is given, where generalized indicates that a boundary function…

In this paper, we study the Dirichlet problem for Laplace's equation in an open disk. The uniqueness of solutions is ensured by the well-known weak maximum principle. We introduce a novel approach to demonstrate the existence of a solution…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Haesung Lee

This paper concerns the use of asymptotic expansions for the efficient solving of forward and inverse problems involving a nonlinear singularly perturbed time-dependent reaction--diffusion--advection equation. By using an asymptotic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-15 Dmitrii Chaikovskii , Ye Zhang

A novel perturbative method, proposed by Panda {\it et al.} [1] to solve the Helmholtz equation in two dimensions, is extended to three dimensions for general boundary surfaces. Although a few numerical works are available in the literature…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-06-21 Subhasis Panda , S. Pratik Khastgir

A high-order quadrature scheme is constructed for the evaluation of Laplace single and double layer potentials and their normal derivatives on smooth surfaces in three dimensions. The construction begins with a harmonic approximation of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Shidong Jiang , Hai Zhu

We present a new formulation of Einstein's equations for an axisymmetric spacetime with vanishing twist in vacuum. We propose a fully constrained scheme and use spherical polar coordinates. A general problem for this choice is the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-15 Christian Schell , Oliver Rinne

The Schroedinger equation is solved for an A-nucleon system using an expansion of the wave function in nonsymmetrized hyperspherical harmonics. Our approach is both an extension and a modification of the formalism developed by Gattobigio et…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Sergio Deflorian , Nir Barnea , Winfried Leidemann , Giuseppina Orlandini

A global analysis is presented of solutions for Laplace's equation on three-dimensional Euclidean space in one of the most general orthogonal asymmetric confocal cyclidic coordinate systems which admit solutions through separation of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Howard S. Cohl , Hans Volkmer

We present a spectrally-accurate scheme to turn a boundary integral formulation for an elliptic PDE on a single unit cell geometry into one for the fully periodic problem. Applications include computing the effective permeability of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Alex H. Barnett , Gary Marple , Shravan Veerapaneni , Lin Zhao

We consider certain solutions of the Infinity-Laplace Equation in planar convex rings. Their ascending streamlines are unique while the descending ones may bifurcate. We prove that bifurcation occurs in the generic situation and as a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-25 Erik Lindgren , Peter Lindqvist