Construction of polynomial particular solutions of linear constant-coefficient partial differential equations
Résumé
This paper introduces general methodologies for constructing closed-form solutions to linear
constant-coefficient partial differential equations (PDEs) with polynomial right-hand sides in two
and three spatial dimensions. Polynomial solutions have recently regained significance in the de-
velopment of numerical techniques for evaluating volume integral operators and also have potential
applications in certain kinds of Trefftz finite element methods. The equations covered in this work
include the isotropic and anisotropic Poisson, Helmholtz, Stokes, linearized Navier-Stokes, sta-
tionary advection-diffusion, elastostatic equations, as well as the time-harmonic elastodynamic
and Maxwell equations. Several solutions to complex PDE systems are obtained by a potential
representation and rely on the Helmholtz or Poisson solvers. Some of the cases addressed, namely
Stokes flow, Maxwell’s equations and linearized Navier-Stokes equations, naturally incorporate
divergence constraints on the solution. This article provides a generic pattern whereby solutions
are constructed by leveraging solutions of the lowest-order part of the partial differential operator
(PDO). With the exception of anisotropic material tensors, no matrix inversion or linear system
solution is required to compute the solutions. This work is accompanied by a freely-available
Julia library, ElementaryPDESolutions.jl, which implements the proposed methodology in an
efficient and user-friendly format.
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