Author(s)

F.T. Korsmeyer, D.K.P. Yue, K. Nabors & J. White

Abstract

In this paper a multipole- accelerated iterative algorithm for solv- ing the matrices generated by panel or boundary-element method discretizations of three-dimensional integral equations is described. The method reduces the memory and computational cost of solving these equations from N* to nearly order TV, where N is the num- ber of degrees of freedom in the discretization. Experimental results from a problem in potential flow is presented to demonstrate that the method has sufficiently low overhead that discretizations with more than fo

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