Convergence and stability of A discontinuous galerkin time-domain method for the 3D heterogeneous maxwell equations on unstructured meshes

Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1149-1176

  Fezoui, Loula ^a   Lanteri, Stéphane ^a   Lohrengel, Stéphanie ^b   Piperno, Serge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

Absorbing boundary condition; Centered fluxes; Convergence; Discontinuous Galerkin methods; Divergence preservation; Electromagnetics; Finite volume methods; L2 stability; Leap frog time scheme; Unstructured meshes

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344457009     PISSN: 0764583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/m2an:2005049     Document Type: Article

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