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Boundary integral solutions of the heat equation
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Abstract:

The Boundary Integral Method (BIM) has recently become quite popular because of its ability to provide cheap numerical solutions to the Laplace equation. This paper describes an attempt to apply a similar approach to the (time-dependent) heat equation in two space variables.
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  • © Copyright 1986 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Math. Comp. 46 (1986), 71-79
  • MSC: Primary 65N99; Secondary 45L10, 65M99, 65R20
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-1986-0815832-6
  • MathSciNet review: 815832