November 2003
Abstract:Stability limits for the diagonal forms approximating the free space Green's function in Helmholtz' equation are derived. It is shown that while the original approximation of the Green's function is stable except for overflows, the diagonalized form becomes unstable due to errors from roundoff, interpolation, choice of quadrature rule and approximation of the translation operator. Numerical experiments validate the theoretical estimates.
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