The convergence rate of a numerical procedure based on Schwarz Alternating Method(SAM) for solving elliptic boundary value problems depends on the selection of the interface conditions applied on the interior boundaries of the overlapping subdomains. It has been observed that the Robin condition (mixed interface condition), controlled by a parameter, can optimize SAM’s convergence rate. In [7],...

In the first part of this chapter we focus on the question of well-posedness of boundary-value problems for linear partial differential equations of elliptic type. The second part is devoted to the construction and the error analysis of finite difference schemes for these problems. It will be assumed throughout that the coefficients in the equation, the boundary data and the resulting solution ...

We compute the expectation and the two-point correlation of the solution to elliptic boundary value problems with stochastic input data. Besides stochastic loadings, via perturbation theory, our approach covers also elliptic problems on stochastic domains or with stochastic coefficients. The solution’s two-point correlation satisfies a hypo-elliptic boundary value problem on the tensor product ...