A simple local smoothing scheme in strongly singular boundary integral representation of potential gradient
✍ Scribed by V. Mantič; E. Graciani; F. Parı́s
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 750 KB
- Volume
- 178
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0045-7825
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✦ Synopsis
A new approach for computation of potential gradient at and near boundary is introduced. A strongly singular boundary integral representation of potential gradient, whose integral density is the potential gradient, is derived and analysed. Applying the concept of the osculating circle, a local smoothing procedure which computes a continuous approximation of potential gradient from the results of a 2D Boundary Element Method (BEM) analysis using linear elements is proposed and evaluated. This approximation is used in the integral representation derived as an integral density which ful®lls the continuity requirements. Numerical experiments demonstrate, for quasiuniform meshes, an Oh 2 accuracy of potential gradient computed by both the local smoothing procedure on smooth parts of the boundary and by the integral representation on smooth boundary parts and near smooth boundary parts for points inside the domain. A consequence of the latter result is that no signi®cant increase in the error appears near the boundary, boundary layer eect thus being eliminated in this approach.