Multilevel solution of the time-harmonic Maxwell's equations based on edge elements

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 901-920

  Beck, Rudolf ^a   Hiptmair, Ralf ^b  

^a ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Edge elements; Maxwell's equations; Multilevel preconditioning; N d lec elements; Scattering problems; Waveguide computations

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

DOUBLE-CURL EQUATIONS; TIME-HARMONIC MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

EID: 0040220140     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19990710)45:7<901::AID-NME611>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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