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Incorporation of a boundary condition to numerical solution of POISSON's equation

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OSTI ID:6177806
Two-dimensional and axially-symmetric problems in electrostatics, magnetostatics or potential fluid flow frequently are solved numerically by means of relaxation techniques -- employing, for example, the finite-difference program POISSON. In many such problems, the ''sources'' (charges or currents, vorticity, and regions of permeable material) lie exclusively within a finite closed boundary curve and the relaxation process, in principle, then can be confined to the region interior to such a boundary -- provided that a suitable boundary condition is imposed on the solution at the boundary. This paper is a review and illustration of a computational method that uses a boundary condition of such a nature as to avoid the inaccuracies and more extensive meshes present when, alternatively, a simple Dirichlet or Neumann boundary condition is specified on a somewhat more remote outer boundary. 2 refs., 5 figs., 1 tab.
Research Organization:
Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC03-76SF00098
OSTI ID:
6177806
Report Number(s):
LBL-24106; CONF-890479-6; ON: TI89007132
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English