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The Calculus of Moving Surfaces and Laplace Eigenvalues on an Ellipse with Low Eccentricity
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The Calculus of Moving Surfaces and Laplace Eigenvalues on an Ellipse with Low Eccentricity

Andrew Fiore and Pavel Grinfeld
Numerical functional analysis and optimization, v 31(6), pp 679-690
27 Jul 2010

Abstract

Boundary variation of differential operators Hadamard formula Calculus of moving surfaces Secondary 49Q10 Primary 34B09
Our goal is to demonstrate the utility of the calculus of moving surfaces (CMS) in boundary variation problems. We discuss the relative advantages of the CMS compared to the alternative approach of interior variations. We illustrate the technique by calculating the two leading terms of a power series for the Laplace eigenvalues on an ellipse with semi-axes 1 + a and 1 + b, where a and b are small. We compare the CMS estimates with those obtained by the conventional finite element method with Richardson extrapolation. The comparison confirms the cubic rate of convergence for the CMS estimates.

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