Title
An immersed interface method for solving anisotropic elliptic boundary value problems in three dimensions
Date Issued
01 September 2003
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Publisher(s)
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Publications
Abstract
We have developed a first-order stable Cartesian grid discretization that uses only interior grid points for inhomogeneous anisotropic elliptic operators subject to Neumann boundary conditions on a bounded nonrectangular geometry in three dimensions. For this discretization method, a necessary and sufficient condition depending on the mesh size h for the existence of this first-order stable scheme at a regular (i.e., interior) grid point is found in terms of the anisotropy matrix. For this discretization method, a way to analyze the existence of a first-order stable scheme at an irregular (i.e., boundary) grid point is also given. The arguments are identical to those for the two-dimensional case [M. A. Dumett and J. P. Keener, A Numerical Method for Solving Anisotropic Elliptic Boundary Value Problems on an Irregular Domain in 2D, manuscript]; only the details change. Unlike in [M. A. Dumett and J, P. Keener, A Numerical Method for Solving Anisotropic Elliptic Boundary Value Problems on an Irregular Domain in 2D, manuscript], a discussion of Dirichlet and Robin boundary conditions is also included. In particular, it is shown that the Gerschgorin condition does not impose sign restrictions on irregular grid points stencil coefficients as in the Neumann case.
Start page
348
End page
367
Volume
25
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Matemáticas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-1842511702
Source
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
ISSN of the container
10648275
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