Affiliation:
1. Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science University of Buea Buea Cameroon
2. Fakultät für Informatik/Mathematik Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden Dresden Germany
Abstract
Solutions of boundary value problems for linear partial differential equations are known to exhibit singular behaviors near the boundary of nonsmooth domains. In this case, one is usually interested on the asymptotic behavior of the solutions near the geometric singularities. However, for both mathematical and engineering purposes, it is important to have extraction formulas for the coefficients in the asymptotic expansion. In this paper, we consider initial boundary value problems for the wave equation in two‐dimensional domains with corners and derive, by means of Fourier analysis, explicit computable expressions for the coefficients in the asymptotic expansion of the solution near the corners. The explicit structure of the singular solutions presented herein makes it fairly easy to compute numerically. Thus, the formulas can be used to construct postprocessing procedures for improving the accuracy of standard numerical techniques of approximating the solution and for improving the rates of convergence in the error estimates. The analysis presented herein would also apply to more general hyperbolic or parabolic equations with constant coefficients.
Funder
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Subject
General Engineering,General Mathematics
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