A diffusion Monte Carlo method for charge density on a conducting surface at non-constant potentials

Abstract

Abstract We develop a last-passage Monte Carlo algorithm on a conducting surface at non-constant potentials. In the previous researches, last-passage Monte Carlo algorithms on conducting surfaces with a constant potential have been developed for charge density at a specific point or on a finite region and a hybrid BIE-WOS algorithm for charge density on a conducting surface at non-constant potentials. In the hybrid BIE-WOS algorithm, they used a deterministic method for the contribution from the lower non-constant potential surface. In this paper, we modify the hybrid BIE-WOS algorithm to a last-passage Monte Carlo algorithm on a conducting surface at non-constant potentials, where we can avoid the singularities on the non-constant potential surface very naturally. We demonstrate the last-passage Monte Carlo algorithm for charge densities on a circular disk and the four rectangle plates with a simple voltage distribution, and update the corner singularities on the unit square plate and cube.