Characteristic conditions for spurious-free finite element approximations of electromagnetic eigenproblems

European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, ECCOMAS 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Caorsi, Salvatore ^a   Fernandes, Paolo ^b   Raffetto, Mirco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cavity resonators; Convergence of spectral approximations; Electromagnetic eigenproblems; Galerkin finite element approximations; Nedelec's edge elements; Spurious modes

Indexed keywords

EDGE ELEMENTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC EIGENPROBLEMS; GALERKIN FINITE ELEMENT APPROXIMATIONS; SPECTRAL APPROXIMATIONS; SPURIOUS MODES;

CAVITY RESONATORS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; GALERKIN METHODS;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

EID: 84893344032     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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