Simulation of diffraction in periodic media with a coupled finite element and plane wave approach

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1500-1517

  Huber, M ^a   Choberl, J S ^a   Sinwel, A ^b   Zaglmayr, S ^c  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JOHANN RADON INSTITUTE FOR COMPUTATIONAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS   (Austria)

^c GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Diffraction gratings; Hp finite elements; Maxwell's equations; Nitsche's method

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION; ELASTIC WAVES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

A-PLANE; COMPLICATED STRUCTURES; FAR-FIELD PATTERNS; HOMOGENEOUS REGIONS; HP-FINITE ELEMENTS; NITSCHE'S METHODS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PERIODIC MEDIA; PLANE WAVE APPROACH; PLANE-WAVE EXPANSIONS;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

EID: 67649522213     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/070705118     Document Type: Article

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