A Nash-Hörmander iteration and boundary elements for the Molodensky problem
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A Nash-Hörmander iteration and boundary elements for the Molodensky problem. / Costea, Adrian ; Gimperlein, Heiko; Stephan, Ernst P.
I: Numerische Mathematik, Bind 127, 2014, s. 1-34.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - A Nash-Hörmander iteration and boundary elements for the Molodensky problem
AU - Costea, Adrian
AU - Gimperlein, Heiko
AU - Stephan, Ernst P.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - We investigate the numerical approximation of the nonlinear Molodensky problem, which reconstructs the surface of the earth from the gravitational potential and the gravity vector. The method, based on a smoothed Nash–Hörmander iteration, solves a sequence of exterior oblique Robin problems and uses a regularization based on a higher-order heat equation to overcome the loss of derivatives in the surface update. In particular, we obtain a quantitative a priori estimate for the error after m steps, justify the use of smoothing operators based on the heat equation, and comment on the accurate evaluation of the Hessian of the gravitational potential on the surface, using a representation in terms of a hypersingular integral.Aboundary element method is used to solve the exterior problem. Numerical results compare the error between the approximation and the exact solution in a model problem.
AB - We investigate the numerical approximation of the nonlinear Molodensky problem, which reconstructs the surface of the earth from the gravitational potential and the gravity vector. The method, based on a smoothed Nash–Hörmander iteration, solves a sequence of exterior oblique Robin problems and uses a regularization based on a higher-order heat equation to overcome the loss of derivatives in the surface update. In particular, we obtain a quantitative a priori estimate for the error after m steps, justify the use of smoothing operators based on the heat equation, and comment on the accurate evaluation of the Hessian of the gravitational potential on the surface, using a representation in terms of a hypersingular integral.Aboundary element method is used to solve the exterior problem. Numerical results compare the error between the approximation and the exact solution in a model problem.
U2 - 10.1007/s00211-013-0579-8
DO - 10.1007/s00211-013-0579-8
M3 - Journal article
VL - 127
SP - 1
EP - 34
JO - Numerische Mathematik
JF - Numerische Mathematik
SN - 0029-599X
ER -
ID: 137753762