Error analysis of Trefftz-discontinuous Galerkin methods for the time-harmonic Maxwell equations

Mathematics of Computation

Volumn 82, Issue 281, 2013, Pages 247-268

  Hiptmair, Ralf ^a   Moiola, Andrea ^a,b   Perugia, Ilaria ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Discontinuous galerkin methods; Duality estimates; p version error analysis; Plane waves; Time harmonic Maxwell's equation; Trefftz methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872192287     PISSN: 00255718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/S0025-5718-2012-02627-5     Document Type: Article

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