Singularity swap quadrature for nearly singular line integrals on closed curves in two dimensions

Abstract

This paper presents a quadrature method for evaluating layer potentials in two dimensions close to periodic boundaries, discretized using the trapezoidal rule. It is an extension of the method of singularity swap quadrature, which recently was introduced for boundaries discretized using composite Gauss–Legendre quadrature. The original method builds on swapping the target singularity for its preimage in the complexified space of the curve parametrization, where the source panel is flat. This allows the integral to be efficiently evaluated using an interpolatory quadrature with a monomial basis. In this extension, we use the target preimage to swap the singularity to a point close to the unit circle. This allows us to evaluate the integral using an interpolatory quadrature with complex exponential basis functions. This is well-conditioned, and can be efficiently evaluated using the fast Fourier transform. The resulting method has exponential convergence, and can be used to accurately evaluate layer potentials close to the source geometry. We report experimental results on a simple test geometry, and provide a baseline Julia implementation that can be used for further experimentation.