An accurate integral equation method for Stokes flow with piecewise smooth boundaries
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Two-dimensional Stokes flow through a periodic channel is considered. The channel walls need only be Lipschitz continuous, in other words they are allowed to have corners. Boundary integral methods are an attractive numerical method to solve the Stokes equations, as the problem can be reformulated into a problem that must be solved only over the boundary of the domain. When the boundary is at least C1 smooth, the boundary integral kernel is a compact operator, and traditional Nyström methods can be used to obtain highly accurate solutions. In the case of Lipschitz continuous boundaries however, obtaining accurate solutions using the standard Nyström method can require high resolution. We adapt a technique known as recursively compressed inverse preconditioning to accurately solve the Stokes equations without requiring any more resolution than is needed to resolve the boundary. Combined with a periodic fast summation method we construct a method that is O(N log N ) where N is the number of quadrature points on the boundary. We demonstrate the robustness of this method by extending an existing boundary integral method for viscous drops to handle the movement of drops near corners.
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