Dual techniques have been used in many engineering papers to deal with singularity and ill-conditioning of the boundary element method (BEM). Our efforts are paid to explore theoretical analysis, including error and stability analysis, to fill up the gap between theory and computation. Our group provides the analysis for Laplace’s equation in circular domains with circular holes and in this paper for elliptic domains with elliptic holes. The explicit algebraic equations of the first kind and second kinds of the null field method (NFM) and the interior field method (IFM) have been studied extensively. Traditionally, the first and the second kinds of the NFM are used for the Dirichlet and Neumann problems, respectively. To bypass the degenerate scales of Dirichlet problems, the second and the first kinds of the NFM are used for the exterior and the interior boundaries, simultaneously, called the dual null field method (DNFM) in this paper. Optimal convergence rates and good stability for the DNFM can be achieved from our analysis. This paper is the first part of the study and mostly concerns theoretical aspects; the second part is expected to be devoted to numerical experiments.

Zi-Cai Li, Prof., Department of Applied Mathematics, National Sun Yat-sen University, 70, Lianhai Road, Kaohsiung, 80424, Taiwan, email: zicili1@gmail.com

Hung-Tsai Huang, Prof., Department of Financial and Computational Mathematics, I-Shou University, 1, Xuecheng Road, Kaohsiung, 84001, Taiwan, e-mail: huanght@isu.edu.tw

Li-Ping Zhang, Asst. Prof., Department of Applied Mathematics, Zhejiang University of Technology, 288, Liuhe Road, Hangzhou, 310023, China, e-mail: zhanglp@zjut.edu.cn

Anna Lempert, Cand. Sci. (Phys.–Math.), Leading Researcher, Matrosov Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, 134, Lermontov str., Irkutsk, 664033, Russian Federation, tel.:+7(3952) 453-030, e-mail: lempert@icc.ru

Ming-Gong Lee, Prof., Department of Tourism and Leisure/Ph.D.Program in Department of Civil Engineering, Chung Hua University, 707, Section 2, Wufu Road, Hsin-Chu, 30012, Taiwan, e-mail: mglee@chu.edu.tw

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