Boundary integral equations for the exterior Robin problem in two dimensions

Abstract

We propose two methods based on boundary integral equations for the numerical solution of the planar exterior Robin boundary value problem for the Laplacian in a multiply connected domain. The methods do not require any a-priori information on the logarithmic capacity. Investigating the properties of the integral operators and employing the Riesz theory we prove that the obtained boundary integral equations for both methods are uniquely solvable. The feasibility of the numerical methods is illustrated by examples obtained via solving the integral equations by the Nyström method based on weighted trigonometric quadratures on an equidistant mesh.