Seminar series
Date
Thu, 12 Jan 2012
Time
14:00 -
15:00
Location
Gibson Grd floor SR
Speaker
Dr Timo Betcke
Organisation
University College London
Nonnormality is a well studied subject in the context of partial differential operators. Yet, only little is known for boundary integral operators. The only well studied case is the unit ball, where the standard single layer, double layer and conjugate double layer potential operators in acoustic scattering diagonalise in a unitary basis. In this talk we present recent results for the analysis of spectral decompositions and nonnormality of boundary integral operators on more general domains. One particular application is the analysis of stability constants for boundary element discretisations. We demonstrate how these are effected by nonnormality and give several numerical examples, illustrating these issues on various domains.