Boundary integral equations with the generalized Neumann kernel for Laplace’s equation in multiply connected regions

This paper presents a new boundary integral method for the solution of Laplace’s equation on both bounded and unbounded multiply connected regions, with either the Dirichlet boundary condition or the Neumann boundary condition. The method is based on two uniquely solvable Fredholm integral equations of the second kind with the generalized Neumann kernel. Numerical results are presented to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed method.     

Fast conformal mapping of multiply connected regions

An iterative method is presented which constructs for an unbounded region G with m holes and sufficiently smooth boundary a circular region H and a conformal mapping Φ from H to G. With the usual normalization both H and Φ are uniquely determined by G. With a few modifications the method can also be applied to a bounded region G with m holes. The canonical region H is then the unit disc with m circular holes. The proposed method also determines the centers and radii of the boundary circles of H and requires, at each iterative step, the solution of a Riemann–Hilbert (RH) problem, which has a unique solution. Numerically, the RH problem can be treated efficiently by the method of successive conjugation using the fast Fourier transform (FFT). The iteration for the solution of the RH problem converges linearly. The conformal mapping method converges quadratically. The results of some test calculations exemplify the performance of the method.     

Time-dependent boundary integral equations for multiply connected plates

The existence of distributional solutions is discussed for theinitial-boundary value problems associated with the motion ofa thin, elastic, multiply connected plate, and for the boundaryequations arising from integral representations of such solutions.     

Numerical conformal mapping of multiply connected domains to regions with circular boundaries

We propose a method to map a multiply connected bounded planar region conformally to a bounded region with circular boundaries. The norm of the derivative of such a conformal map satisfies the Laplace equation with a nonlinear Neumann type boundary condition. We analyze the singular behavior at corners of the boundary and separate the major singular part. The remaining smooth part solves a variational problem which is easy to discretize. We use a finite element method and a gradient descent method to find an approximate solution. The conformal map is then constructed from this norm function. We tested our algorithm on a polygonal region and a curvilinear smooth region.     

Fast conformal mapping of an ellipse to a simply connected region

The iterative method of Wegmann (1978) for conformal mapping of a region E to a region G is reformulated in terms of a conjugation operator. If the boundary of G is sufficiently smooth, the method converges quadratically in a Sobolev space W. To overcome the crowding an elongated canonical region E should be chosen if the image region G is elongated. For ellipses E the operator of conjugation can be expressed in a very simple way in terms of Fourier series. Numerically, this can be performed very efficiently by fast Fourier transform (FFT).     

The determination of the poles of the mapping function and their use in numerical conformal mapping

Let ? be the function which maps conformally a simply-connected domain Ω onto the unit disc. This paper is concerned with the problem of determining the dominant poles of ? in compl(Ω ∪ ? Ω), and of using this information in order to obtain accurate numerical approximations to ? by means of the Bergman kernel method.     

A conformal mapping algorithm for the Bernoulli free boundary value problem

We propose a new numerical method for the solution of the Bernoulli free boundary value problem for harmonic functions in a doubly connected domain D in where an unknown free boundary Γ₀ is determined by prescribed Cauchy data on Γ₀ in addition to a Dirichlet condition on the known boundary Γ₁. Our main idea is to involve the conformal mapping method as proposed and analyzed by Akduman, Haddar, and Kress for the solution of a related inverse boundary value problem. For this, we interpret the free boundary Γ₀ as the unknown boundary in the inverse problem to construct Γ₀ from the Dirichlet condition on Γ₀ and Cauchy data on the known boundary Γ₁. Our method for the Bernoulli problem iterates on the missing normal derivative on Γ₁ by alternating between the application of the conformal mapping method for the inverse problem and solving a mixed Dirichlet–Neumann boundary value problem in D. We present the mathematical foundations of our algorithm and prove a convergence result. Some numerical examples will serve as proof of concept of our approach. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

On the numerical solution of a boundary integral equation for the exterior Neumann problem on domains with corners

The authors propose a “modified” Nyström method to approximate the solution of a boundary integral equation connected with the exterior Neumann problem for Laplace's equation on planar domains with corners. They prove the convergence and the stability of the method and show some numerical tests.     

Symmetry and regularity of solutions to a system with three-component integral equations

Consider the system with three-component integral equations u(x) = Rn |x y|α nw(y)rv(y)q dy,v(x) = Rn |x y|α nu(y)pw(y)rdy,w(x) = Rn |x y|α nv(y)q u(y)pdy,where 0 < α < n,n is a positive constant,p,q and r satisfy some suitable conditions.It is shown that every positive regular solution(u(x),v(x),w(x)) is radially symmetric and monotonic about some point by developing the moving plane method in an integral form.In addition,the regularity of the solutions is also proved by the contraction mapping principle.The conformal invariant property of the system is also investigated.     

Some remarks on the modulus of continuity of a conformal mapping of the disk onto a Jordan domain

Letd(;z, t) be the smallest diameter of the arcs of a Jordan curve with endsz andt. Consider the rapidity of decreasing ofd(;)=sup{d(;z, t):z, t , ¦z–t¦} (as 0,0) as a measure of nicety of . Letg(x) (x0) be a continuous and nondecreasing function such thatg(x)x,g(0)=0. Put¯g(x)=g(x)+x, h(x)=(¯g(x))². LetH(x) be an arbitrary primitive of 1/h ^–1(x). Note that the functionH ^–1 x is positive and increasing on (–, +),H ^–1 0 asx– andH ^–1+ asx +. The following statement is proved in the paper.Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 60, No. 2, pp. 176–184, August, 1996.This research was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research under grant No. 93-01-00236 and by the International Science Foundation under grant No. NCF000.     

An extrapolation method for a class of boundary integral equations

Boundary value problems of the third kind are converted into boundary integral equations of the second kind with periodic logarithmic kernels by using Green's formulas. For solving the induced boundary integral equations, a Nyström scheme and its extrapolation method are derived for periodic Fredholm integral equations of the second kind with logarithmic singularity. Asymptotic expansions for the approximate solutions obtained by the Nyström scheme are developed to analyze the extrapolation method. Some computational aspects of the methods are considered, and two numerical examples are given to illustrate the acceleration of convergence.

     

Numerical solution of Volterra integral equations with singularities

The numerical solution of linear Volterra integral equations of the second kind is discussed. The kernel of the integral equation may have weak diagonal and boundary singularities. Using suitable smoothing techniques and polynomial splines on mildly graded or uniform grids, the convergence behavior of the proposed algorithms is studied and a collection of numerical results is given.     

Note on the integral mean value method for Fredholm integral equations of the second kind

We study the paper of Avazzadeh et al. [Z. Avazzadeh, M. Heydari, G.B., Loghmani, Numerical solution of Fedholm integral equations of the second kind by using integral mean value theorem, Appl. Math. Model. 35 (2011) 2374–2383] with the integral mean value method for Fredholm integral equations of the second kind. The objective of the note is threefold. First, we point out a basic error in the paper. Second, we find that the given numerical examples are only related to the special cases of Fredholm integral equations of the second kind with the degenerate kernels, which can be solved simply. Third, due to the basic error, our observations reveal that generally the suggested method should not be considered for a Fredholm integral equation of the second kind.     

A method for accelerating the iterative solution of a class of Fredholm integral equations

The present paper extends the synthetic method of transport theory to a large class of integral equations. Convergence and divergence properties of the algorithm are studied analytically, and numerical examples are presented which demonstrate the expected theoretical behavior. It is shown that, in some instances, the computational advantage over the familiar Neumann approach is substantial.This authors acknowledge with pleasure conversations with Paul Nelson. Thanks are due also to Janet E. Wing, whose computer program was used in making the calculations reported in Section 8.This work was performed in part under the auspices of USERDA at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory of the University of California, Los Alamos, New Mexico.     

Evaluation of a boundary integral representation for the conformal mapping of the unit disk onto a simply-connected domain

A representation of the conformal mapping g of the interior or exterior of the unit circle onto a simply-connected domain Ω as a boundary integral in terms of?|_?Ω is obtained, where? :=g ^-l. A product integration scheme for the approximation of the boundary integral is described and analysed. An ill-conditioning problem related to the domain geometry is discussed. Numerical examples confirm the conclusions of this discussion and support the analysis of the quadrature scheme.     

A stable numerical method for Volterra integral equations with discontinuous kernel

Numerical methods for Volterra integral equations with discontinuous kernel need to be tuned to their peculiar form. Here we propose a version of the trapezoidal direct quadrature method adapted to such a type of equations. In order to delineate its stability properties, we first investigate about the behavior of the solution of a suitable (basic) test equation and then we find out under which hypotheses the trapezoidal direct quadrature method provides numerical solutions which inherit the properties of the continuous problem.     

一类共形不变摄动积分方程正解的存在性

本文讨论了一类共形不变摄动积分方程正解的存在性. 我们证明了:当参数对(p, q) 属于集合(-n, 0) × (0,∞) 且pq + p + 2n = 0 时, 对应摄动积分方程存在正解; 而当参数对(p, q) 属于集合(0,∞)×(-∞, 0) 也满足pq +p+2n = 0 时, 摄动积分方程不存在非负解. 这与原共形不变积分方程有着本质的不同, 此结果隐含着这类积分方程正解的存在性取决于解在无穷远处的性态.