Approximate Inversion of the Laplace Transform
Approximate Inversion of the Laplace Transform
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1998
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A. Cheng;P. Sidauruk
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is often used in the solution of linear partial differential equations to eliminate the time dimension. The resulting systems become easier to solve by analytical techniques [Detournay and Cheng 19881, or numerical methods such as finite element or boundary element methods [Cheng and Ou 1989; Cheng and Detournay 19881. The solutions thus obtained need to be inverted to the time domain. The exact inversion is normally difficult to carry out, so approximate inversion techniques are used. There are many approximate Laplace inversion algorithms. (For comprehensive bibliographies, see [Piessens 197.5; Piessens and Dang 19761.) With issues of computational efficiency and accuracy in mind, a handful of techniques have been tested and compared [Cost 1964; Davies and Martin 1979; Narayanan and Beskos 19821. Based on recommendations in the literature and our own experience in engineering applications, we present here the Mathematics package NLaplaceInversion .m, which implements five inversion algorithms, one in each of the five categories classified by Davies and Martin [ 19791. It is important to emphasize that “the inverse of the Laplace transform is not stable under reasonable perturbations” [Bellman et al. 19661. This can be seen by considering the function f(t) = sin at, a > 0, and its Laplace transform F(s) = a/( a2 + s2). While F(s) can be made arbitrarily small by taking a sufficiently large, the inverse transform f(t) oscillates between -1 and 1. It is therefore impossible to devise a universal algorithm that performs well for all types of func-