Harmonic function in a rectangle with one constant boundary value
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On , , the bounded harmonic function with value on the open upper edge and zero on the other three open edges has the sine-hyperbolic series in the title. Separation of variables gives the modes, and the Fourier sine series of a constant selects only odd . The series converges exponentially on compact subsets of the interior, justifying its derivatives in Laplace's equation.
For , the upper corners have incompatible one-sided boundary limits, so the solution cannot extend continuously to them. Assigning isolated corner values does not alter the bounded interior Dirichlet problem. For numerical evaluation, the stable mode ratio isThis avoids overflow from separately evaluating large hyperbolic sines.
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