Evaluating singular and near-singular integrals on $C^2$ smooth surfaces with quadratic geometric approximation and closed form expressions

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Autori principali: Zheng, Andrew, Alexakis, Spyros, Stinchcombe, Adam R
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author Zheng, Andrew
Alexakis, Spyros
Stinchcombe, Adam R
author_facet Zheng, Andrew
Alexakis, Spyros
Stinchcombe, Adam R
contents Most Fredholm integral equations involve integrals with weakly singular kernels. Once the domain of integration is discretized into flat triangular elements, these weakly singular kernels become strongly singular or near-singular. Common methods to compute these integrals when the kernel is a Green's function include the Duffy transform, polar coordinates with closed analytic formulas, and singularity extraction. However, these methods do not generalize well to the normal derivatives of Green's functions due to the strongly singular behavior of these functions on triangular elements. We provide methods to integrate both the Green's function and its normal derivative on smooth surfaces discretized by triangular elements in three dimensions for many commonly encountered differential operators. For strongly singular integrals involving normal derivatives of Green's functions, we introduce a more refined approximation of the derivatives of the Green's function on flat triangles. This method uses geometric information of the true surface of integration to approximate the original integral on the true domain using push-forward maps. This is better than simply setting the singular integrals to zero, while being faster than adaptive refinement methods. We provide an algorithm for explicit computations on triangles, and present necessary analytic formulas that the algorithm requires in the appendix.
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spellingShingle Evaluating singular and near-singular integrals on $C^2$ smooth surfaces with quadratic geometric approximation and closed form expressions
Zheng, Andrew
Alexakis, Spyros
Stinchcombe, Adam R
Numerical Analysis
65N38, 65R20
Most Fredholm integral equations involve integrals with weakly singular kernels. Once the domain of integration is discretized into flat triangular elements, these weakly singular kernels become strongly singular or near-singular. Common methods to compute these integrals when the kernel is a Green's function include the Duffy transform, polar coordinates with closed analytic formulas, and singularity extraction. However, these methods do not generalize well to the normal derivatives of Green's functions due to the strongly singular behavior of these functions on triangular elements. We provide methods to integrate both the Green's function and its normal derivative on smooth surfaces discretized by triangular elements in three dimensions for many commonly encountered differential operators. For strongly singular integrals involving normal derivatives of Green's functions, we introduce a more refined approximation of the derivatives of the Green's function on flat triangles. This method uses geometric information of the true surface of integration to approximate the original integral on the true domain using push-forward maps. This is better than simply setting the singular integrals to zero, while being faster than adaptive refinement methods. We provide an algorithm for explicit computations on triangles, and present necessary analytic formulas that the algorithm requires in the appendix.
title Evaluating singular and near-singular integrals on $C^2$ smooth surfaces with quadratic geometric approximation and closed form expressions
topic Numerical Analysis
65N38, 65R20
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.11907