From classical numerical mathematics to scientific computing.
A simple and effective method based on Haar wavelets is proposed for the solution of Pocklington’s integral equation. The properties of Haar wavelets are first given. These wavelets are utilized to reduce the solution of Pocklington’s integral equation to the solution of algebraic equations. In order to save memory and computation time, we apply a threshold procedure to obtain sparse algebraic equations. Through numerical examples, performance of the present method is investigated concerning the...
We address the homogenization of an eigenvalue problem for the neutron transport equation in a periodic heterogeneous domain, modeling the criticality study of nuclear reactor cores. We prove that the neutron flux, corresponding to the first and unique positive eigenvector, can be factorized in the product of two terms, up to a remainder which goes strongly to zero with the period. One term is the first eigenvector of the transport equation in the periodicity cell. The other term is the...
A new system of integral equations for the exterior 2D time harmonic scattering problem is investigated. This system was first proposed by B. Després in [11]. Two new derivations of this system are given: one from elementary manipulations of classical equations, the other based on a minimization of a quadratic functional. Numerical issues are addressed to investigate the potential of the method.