Numerical Solution of Elliptic Equations by Garrett Birkhoff
By Garrett Birkhoff
A concise survey of the present country of data in 1972 approximately fixing elliptic boundary-value eigenvalue issues of the aid of a working laptop or computer. This quantity presents a case learn in medical computing -- the artwork of using actual instinct, mathematical theorems and algorithms, and sleek desktop know-how to build and discover life like types of difficulties bobbing up within the average sciences and engineering.
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In the case of partial DE's with constant coefficients and a uniform mesh, the process yields some very elegant (and sometimes useful) formulas. I shall mention a few such formulas, giving references7 and assuming high order differentiability. Thus, formula (2) leads to a difference approximation where having O(h4) accuracy on a 9-point square of mesh-points (see [KK, p. 179] and J. Bramble and B. Hubbard [2]). This is not to be confused with the difference approximation where on a 9-point cross of mesh-points [KK, p.
4], [3], and the references given there. Early relevant papers include J. Schroder, Z. Angew Math. , 34 (1954), pp. 241-253; R. J. Arms, L. D. Gates and B. Zondek, J. Soc. Indust. Appl. , 4 (1956), pp. 220-229; J. , 8 (1960), pp. 150-173. 11 See S. V. Parter, Numer. , 1 (1959), pp. 240-252, and [6]; also J. Assoc. Comput. , 8 (1961), pp. 359-365 and [V, p. 208]. 12 See [7]; also J. E. Gunn, SIAM J. Numer. , 2 (1964), pp. 24-25; T. , 4 (1968), pp. 753-782. RELAXATION METHODS 37 upper) triangular matrices L and U, and then to iterate Such "strongly implicit" iterative approaches deserve further study partly because of their potential adaptability to the variational formulations with piecewise polynomial approximations to be discussed in Lectures 7 and 8.
10] , The numerical solution of elliptic and parabolic partial differential equations, Modern Mathematics for the Engineer, Second Series, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1961, pp. 373^19. This page intentionally left blank LECTURE 5 Semi-iterative Methods 1. Chebyshev semi-iteration. , in "iterating" where (for example) we might have L[u] = Bu + k. In practice, optimal methods are seldom purely iterative, because numerical information obtained from previous iterations can usually be used as "feedback" to improve on L.