Fundamental Solutions for Hyperbolic Operators with Variable Coefficients

In this article we describe the novel method to construct fundamental solutions for operators with variable coefficients. That method was introduced in "A note on the fundamental solution for the Tricomi-type equation in the hyperbolic domain"(J. Differential Equations,206(2004)227--252) to study the Tricomi-type equation. More precisely, the new integral operator is suggested which transforms the family of the fundamental solutions of the Cauchy problem for the equation with the constant coefficients to the fundamental solutions for the operators with variable coefficients

Localized boundary-domain integral formulations for problems with variable coefficients

Specially constructed localized parametrixes are used in this paper instead of a fundamental solution to reduce a boundary value problem with variable coefficients to a localized boundary-domain integral or integro-differential equation (LBDIE or LBDIDE). After discretization, this results in a sparsely populated system of linear algebraic equations, which can be solved by well-known efficient methods. This make the method competitive with the finite element method for such problems. Some methods of the parametrix localization are discussed and the corresponding LBDIEs and LBDIDEs are introduced. Both mesh-based and meshless algorithms for the localized equations discretization are described