Download or read book Numerical Methods for Exterior Problems written by Long'an Ying and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2006 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface -- 1. Exterior problems of partial differential equations. 1.1. Harmonic equation-potential theory. 1.2. Poisson equations. 1.3. Poisson equations-variational formulation. 1.4. Helmholtz equations. 1.5. Linear elasticity. 1.6. Bi-harmonic equations. 1.7. Steady Navier-Stokes equations-linearized problems. 1.8. Steady Navier-Stokes equations. 1.9. Heat equation. 1.10. Wave equation. 1.11. Maxwell equations. 1.12. Darwin model -- 2. Boundary element method. 2.1. Some typical domains. 2.2. General domains. 2.3. Subdivision of the domain. 2.4. Dirichlet to Neǔmann operator. 2.5. Finite part of divergent integrals. 2.6. Numerical approximation. 2.7. Error estimates. 2.8. Domain decomposition. 2.9. Boundary perturbation -- 3. Infinite element method. 3.1. Harmonic equation-two dimensional problems. 3.2. General elements. 3.3. Harmonic equation-three dimensional problems. 3.4. Inhomogeneous equations. 3.5. Plane elasticity. 3.6. Bi-harmonic equations. 3.7. Stokes equation. 3.8. Darwin model. 3.9. Elliptic equations with variable coefficients. 3.10. Convergence -- 4. Artificial boundary conditions. 4.1. Absorbing boundary conditions. 4.2. Some approximations. 4.3. Bayliss-Turkel radiation boundary conditions. 4.4. A lower order absorbing boundary condition. 4.5. Liao extrapolation in space and time. 4.6. Maxwell equations. 4.7. Finite difference schemes. 4.8. Stationary Navier-Stokes equations -- 5. Perfectly matched layer method. 5.1. Wave equations. 5.2. Bérenger's perfectly matched layers. 5.3. Stability analysis. 5.4. Uniaxial perfectly matched layers. 5.5. Maxwell equations. 5.6. Helmholtz equations -- 6. Spectral method. 6.1. Introduction. 6.2. Orthogonal systems of polynomials. 6.3. Laguerre spectral methods. 6.4. Jacobi spectral methods. 6.5. Rational and irrational spectral methods. 6.6. Error estimates