Fast Spectral Collocation Method for Surface Integral Equations of Potential Problems in a Spheroid

Fast Spectral Collocation Method for Surface Integral Equations of Potential Problems in a Spheroid

Year:    2009

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 6 (2009), Iss. 3 : pp. 625–638

Abstract

This paper proposes a new technique to speed up the computation of the matrix of spectral collocation discretizations of surface single and double layer operators over a spheroid. The layer densities are approximated by a spectral expansion of spherical harmonics and the spectral collocation method is then used to solve surface integral equations of potential problems in a spheroid. With the proposed technique, the computation cost of collocation matrix entries is reduced from O(M2N4) to O(MN4), where Nis the number of spherical harmonics (i.e., size of the matrix) and M is the number of one-dimensional integration quadrature points. Numerical results demonstrate the spectral accuracy of the method.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/2009-CiCP-7697

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 6 (2009), Iss. 3 : pp. 625–638

Published online:    2009-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    14

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