Spurious-free approximations of electromagnetic eigenproblems by means of Nedelec-type elements

Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 331-354

  Caorsi, Salvatore ^a   Fernandes, Paolo ^b   Raffetto, Mirco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b Ist Matemat Applicata Cons N   (Italy)

Author keywords

Convergence; Discontinuous material properties; Discrete compactness; Electromagnetic eigenproblems; Galerkin finite element approximations; Mixed boundary conditions; New families of edge elements; Spurious modes; Symmetry exploitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035627702     PISSN: 0764583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/m2an:2001118     Document Type: Article

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