A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Computation of exterior moduli of quadrilaterals
Authors: Harri Hakula, Antti Rasila, Matti Vuorinen
Publisher: Kent State University
Publishing place: USA
Publication year: 2013
Journal: Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis
Journal name in source: Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis
Volume: 40
First page : 436
Last page: 451
Number of pages: 16
ISSN: 1068-9613
Web address : http://www.emis.de/journals/ETNA/vol.40.2013/pp436-451.dir/pp436-451.pdf
We study the problem of computing the exterior modulus of a bounded quadrilateral. We reduce this problem to the numerical solution of the Dirichlet-Neumann problem for the Laplace equation. Several experimental results, with error estimates, are reported. Our main method makes use of an hp-FEM algorithm, which enables computations in the case of complicated geometry. For simple geometries, good agreement with computational results based on the SC Toolbox, is observed. We also use the reciprocal error estimation method introduced in our earlier paper to validate our numerical results. In particular, exponential convergence, in accordance with the theory of Babuška and Guo, is demonstrated. Copyright ©? 2013, Kent State University.