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Title: | A fast finite difference method for biharmonic equations on irregular domains and its application to an incompressible Stokes flow | Authors: | Chen, G. Li, Z. Lin, P. |
Keywords: | Augmented method Biharmonic equation Immersed interface method Incompressible Stokes flow Irregular domain |
Issue Date: | Aug-2008 | Citation: | Chen, G., Li, Z., Lin, P. (2008-08). A fast finite difference method for biharmonic equations on irregular domains and its application to an incompressible Stokes flow. Advances in Computational Mathematics 29 (2) : 113-133. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10444-007-9043-6 | Abstract: | Biharmonic equations have many applications, especially in fluid and solid mechanics, but is difficult to solve due to the fourth order derivatives in the differential equation. In this paper a fast second order accurate algorithm based on a finite difference discretization and a Cartesian grid is developed for two dimensional biharmonic equations on irregular domains with essential boundary conditions. The irregular domain is embedded into a rectangular region and the biharmonic equation is decoupled to two Poisson equations. An auxiliary unknown quantity Δu along the boundary is introduced so that fast Poisson solvers on irregular domains can be used. Non-trivial numerical examples show the efficiency of the proposed method. The number of iterations of the method is independent of the mesh size. Another key to the method is a new interpolation scheme to evaluate the residual of the Schur complement system. The new biharmonic solver has been applied to solve the incompressible Stokes flow on an irregular domain. © 2007 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc. | Source Title: | Advances in Computational Mathematics | URI: | http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/102640 | ISSN: | 10197168 | DOI: | 10.1007/s10444-007-9043-6 |
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