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The Multivariate Theory of Connections

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  • Daniele Mortari

    (Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA)

  • Carl Leake

    (Aerospace Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA)

Abstract

This paper extends the univariate Theory of Connections, introduced in (Mortari, 2017), to the multivariate case on rectangular domains with detailed attention to the bivariate case. In particular, it generalizes the bivariate Coons surface, introduced by (Coons, 1984), by providing analytical expressions, called constrained expressions , representing all possible surfaces with assigned boundary constraints in terms of functions and arbitrary-order derivatives. In two dimensions, these expressions, which contain a freely chosen function, g ( x , y ) , satisfy all constraints no matter what the g ( x , y ) is. The boundary constraints considered in this article are Dirichlet, Neumann, and any combinations of them. Although the focus of this article is on two-dimensional spaces, the final section introduces the Multivariate Theory of Connections , validated by mathematical proof. This represents the multivariate extension of the Theory of Connections subject to arbitrary-order derivative constraints in rectangular domains. The main task of this paper is to provide an analytical procedure to obtain constrained expressions in any space that can be used to transform constrained problems into unconstrained problems. This theory is proposed mainly to better solve PDE and stochastic differential equations.

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  • Daniele Mortari & Carl Leake, 2019. "The Multivariate Theory of Connections," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 7(3), pages 1-22, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jmathe:v:7:y:2019:i:3:p:296-:d:216447
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    1. Daniele Mortari, 2017. "The Theory of Connections: Connecting Points," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 5(4), pages 1-15, November.
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