Abstract
Spline Galerkin methods for the double layer potential equation on contours with corners are studied. The stability of the method depends on the invertibility of some operators Rτ associated with the corner points τ. The operators Rτ do not depend on the shape of the contour but only on the opening angles of the corner points τ. The invertibility of these operators is studied numerically via the stability of the method on model curves, all corner points of which have the same opening angle. The case of the splines of order 0, 1 and 2 is considered. It is shown that no opening angle located in the interval [0.1π, 1.9π] can cause the instability of the method. This result is in strong contrast with the Nystrom method, which has four instability angles in the interval mentioned. Numerical experiments show a good convergence of the methods even if the right-hand side of the equation has discontinuities located at the corner points of the contour.
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