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On the solution of Beltrami’s equation by complex planar splines. (English) Zbl 0722.30030

The author solves numerically a Beltrami differential equation of type \[ (*)\quad (\partial /\partial \bar z)f(z)=\mu (z)(\partial /\partial z)f(z). \] This is a differential equation in the complex plane, where \(\mu\) is a given complex function required to satisfy \(\| \mu \|_{\infty}<1\) which implies quasiregularity of the wanted functions f. The numerical solution of (*) is achieved by applying complex planar splines. These splines are in spirit finite elements with complex coefficients. The advantage of using these splines is that one does not need to split the differential equation into real and imaginary part. The author studies the so-called Goursat problem on a triangle where certain boundary conditions have to be fulfilled. He uses a triangular mesh and proposes an algorithm for which he proves linear convergence in uniform norm in dependence of the meshsize of the triangular grid. There are two numerical examples which mirror the theory well. In addition there is a section on improving on the convergence rate by applying extrapolation techniques repeatedly. This technique is also illustrated by an example.
Reviewer: G.Opfer (Hamburg)

MSC:

30E25 Boundary value problems in the complex plane
65M99 Numerical methods for partial differential equations, initial value and time-dependent initial-boundary value problems
65N99 Numerical methods for partial differential equations, boundary value problems
35J15 Second-order elliptic equations
65D07 Numerical computation using splines
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