Interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin method for Maxwell's equations: Optimal L2-norm error estimates

IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 440-468

  Grote, Marcus J ^a   Schneebeli, Anna ^a   Schötzau, Dominik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

A priori error estimates; Discontinuous Galerkin methods; Maxwell's equations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ESTIMATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

A-PRIORI ESTIMATES; DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHODS; INTERIOR PENALTIES; MATERIAL COEFFICIENTS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PRIORI ERROR ESTIMATE; TETRAHEDRAL MESHES; TIME-DEPENDENT MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS;

GALERKIN METHODS;

EID: 46349083775     PISSN: 02724979     EISSN: 14643642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/imanum/drm038     Document Type: Article

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