Statement of The Equation
The Poisson Equation is
where is the Laplace operator, and f and φ are real or complex-valued functions on a manifold. When the manifold is Euclidean space, the Laplace operator is often denoted as ∇2 and so Poisson's equation is frequently written as
In three-dimensional Cartesian coordinates, it takes the form
For vanishing f, this equation becomes Laplace's equation
The Poisson equation may be solved using a Green's function; a general exposition of the Green's function for the Poisson equation is given in the article on the screened Poisson equation. There are various methods for numerical solution. The relaxation method, an iterative algorithm, is one example.
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