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Scheme for solving Laplace's (Poisson's) equation

In order to illustrate how we can transform the last equations into a linear algebra problem of the type \mathbf{A}\mathbf{x}=\mathbf{w} , with \mathbf{A} a matrix and \mathbf{x} and \mathbf{w} unknown and known vectors respectively, let us also for the sake of simplicity assume that the number of points n=3 . We assume also that u(x,y) = g(x,y) on the border \delta\Omega .

The inner values of the function u are then given by \begin{align} 4u_{11} -u_{21} -u_{01} - u_{12}- u_{10}=&-\tilde{\rho}_{11} \nonumber \\ 4u_{12} - u_{02} - u_{22} - u_{13}- u_{11}=&-\tilde{\rho}_{12} \nonumber \\ 4u_{21} - u_{11} - u_{31} - u_{22}- u_{20}=&-\tilde{\rho}_{21} \nonumber \\ 4u_{22} - u_{12} - u_{32} - u_{23}- u_{21}=&-\tilde{\rho}_{22}. \nonumber \end{align}