Consistent approximations of several geometric differential operators and their convergence

  • Authors:
  • Guoliang Xu

  • Affiliations:
  • State Key Laboratory of Scientific and Engineering Computing, Institute of Computational Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

  • Venue:
  • Applied Numerical Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2013

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

The numerical integration of geometric partial differential equations is used in many applications such as image processing, surface processing, computer graphics and computer-aided geometric design. Discrete approximations of several first- and second-order geometric differential operators, such as the tangential gradient operator, the second tangential operator, the Laplace-Beltrami operator and the Giaquinta-Hildebrandt operator, are utilized in the numerical integrations. In this paper, we consider consistent discretized approximations of these operators based on a quadratic fitting scheme. An asymptotic error analysis is conducted which shows that under very mild conditions the discrete approximations of the first- and second-order geometric differential operators have quadratic and linear convergence rates, respectively.