High order accurate particular solutions of the biharmonic equation on general regions

  • Authors:
  • Anita Mayo

  • Affiliations:
  • Watson Research Center, Yorktown Hts., NY

  • Venue:
  • Contemporary mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We present a fast, new method for evaluating particular solutions of the biharmonic equation on general two dimensional regions. The cost of our method is essentially twice the cost of solving Poisson's equation on a regular rectangular region in which the irregular region is embedded. Thus, the cost is O(n2 log n) where n is the number of mesh points in each direction in the embedding region. Moreover, we can compute derivatives of the particular solution directly, with little loss of accuracy if the boundary and inhomogeneous term are sufficiently accurate. The is especially important in applications, since it is generally derivatives that are needed. Computational results are provided.