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A novel fast solver for Poisson equation with the Neumann boundary condition

2012/07/18 by Zu‐Hui Ma, Ma, Zu-Hui, Weng Cho Chew +3
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis #Electromagnetic Simulation and Numerical Methods #FOS: Mathematics #FOS: Physical sciences #High voltage insulation and dielectric phenomena #Mathematical Physics (math-ph) #Numerical Analysis (math.NA)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1207.4260

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Abstract

In this paper we present a novel fast method to solve Poisson equation in an arbitrary two dimensional region with Neumann boundary condition. The basic idea is to solve the original Poisson problem by a two-step procedure: the first one finds the electric displacement field D and the second one involves the solution of potential ϕ. The first step exploits loop-tree decomposition technique that has been applied widely in integral equations within the computational electromagnetics (CEM) community. We expand the electric displacement field in terms of a tree basis. Then, coefficients of the tree basis can be found by the fast tree solver in O(N) operations. Such obtained solution, however, fails to expand the exact field because the tree basis is not completely curl free. Despite of this, the accurate field could be retrieved by carrying out a procedure of divergence free field removal. Subsequently, potential distribution ϕ can be found rapidly at the second stage with another fast approach of O(N) complexity. As a result, the method dramatically reduces solution time comparing with traditional FEM with iterative method. Numerical examples including electrostatic simulations are presented to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed method.

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