M. Arad et al., COMPUTING FLUX INTENSITY FACTORS BY A BOUNDARY METHOD FOR ELLIPTIC-EQUATIONS WITH SINGULARITIES, Communications in numerical methods in engineering, 14(7), 1998, pp. 657-670
A simple method for computing the flux intensity factors associated wi
th the asymptotic solution of elliptic equations having a large conver
gence radius in the vicinity of singular points is presented. The Pois
son and Laplace equations over domains containing boundary singulariti
es due to abrupt change of the boundary geometry or boundary condition
s are considered. The method is based on approximating the solution by
the leading terms of the local symptotic expansion, weakly enforcing
boundary conditions by minimization of a norm on the domain boundary i
n a least-squares sense. The method is applied to the Motz problem, re
sulting in extremely accurate estimates for the flux intensity factors
. It is shown that the method converges exponentially with the number
of singular functions and requires a low computational cost. Numerical
results to a number of problems concerned with the Poisson equation o
ver an L-shaped domain, and over domains containing multiple singular
points, demonstrate accurate estimates for the flux intensity factors.
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