A FINITE-ELEMENT METHOD FOR APPROXIMATING THE TIME-HARMONIC MAXWELL EQUATIONS

被引:103
作者
MONK, P
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[1] Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, 19713, DE
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10.1007/BF01385860
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O29 [应用数学];
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070104 ;
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In this paper we study the use of Nedelec's curl conforming finite elements to approximate the time-harmonic Maxwell equations on a bounded domain. The analysis is complicated by the fact that the bilinear form is not coercive, and the principle part has a very large null-space. This difficulty is circumvented by using a discrete Helmholtz decomposition of the error vector. Numerical results are presented that compare two different linear elements.
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