Multigrid methods for elliptic problems in unbounded domains
Multigrid methods for elliptic problems in unbounded domains
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无界域椭圆问题的多重网格方法
DOI:
10.1137/0730008
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发表时间:
1993
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
C. Goldstein
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作者:
C. Goldstein
The goal of this work is to study multigrid methods in connection with the numerical solution of elliptic problems in the exterior of a bounded domain. The numerical method consists of approximating the original problem by one on a truncated domain of diameter R and imposing a simple local approximate boundary condition on the outer boundary. The resulting problem is discretized using the finite element method. R must be made sufficiently large to reduce the truncation error (due to the approximate boundary condition) to the level of the discretization error. This results in a very large number of unknowns (increasing like $0(R^3 )$ in three dimensions), when a quasi-uniform mesh is used. In previous work by the author [Math. Comp., 36 (1981), pp. 387–404], it was shown that optimal error estimates hold with the number of unknowns independent of R using a mesh grading procedure in which the size of the elements are systematically increased as their distance from the origin increases.In the present paper i...