Convergence of the natural hp-BEM for the electric field integral equation on polyhedral surfaces

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1518-1529

  Bespalov, A ^a   Heuer, N ^b   Hiptmair, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Boundary element method; Electric field integral equation; Electromagnetic scattering; Galerkin discretization; Hp refinement; Noncoercive variational problems; Projection based interpolation; Smoothed Poincar mapping

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; GALERKIN DISCRETIZATION; HP-REFINEMENT; POINCARE; PROJECTION-BASED INTERPOLATION; VARIATIONAL PROBLEMS;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETISM; GALERKIN METHODS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTERPOLATION; POLYNOMIALS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES; SAILING VESSELS;

ANTENNAS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 77956774770     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/090766620     Document Type: Article

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