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The Schwarz alternating method can be used to solve elliptic boundary value problems on domains which consist of two or more overlapping subdomains. The solution is approximated by an infinite sequence of functions which results from solving a sequence of elliptic boundary value problems in each of the subdomains. The full potential equation is derived from the Navier–Stokes equations assuming the fluid is compressible, inviscid, irrotational and isentropic. It is being used by the aircraft industry to model flow over an airfoil or even an entire aircraft. This paper shows that the additive and multiplicative versions of the Schwarz alternating method, when applied to the full potential equation in three dimensions, converge to the true solution geometrically. The assumptions are that the initial guess and the true solution are everywhere subsonic. We use the convergence proof by Tai and Xu and modify it for certain closed convex subsets.
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Lui, S. On Schwarz Alternating Methods for the Subsonic Full Potential Equation. Numerical Algorithms 30, 59–69 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015607020422
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