A study of the condition number of various finite element matrices involved in the numerical solution of Maxwell's equations

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 3048-3059

  Stupfel, Bruno ^a  

^a CEA CESTA   (France)

Author keywords

Absorbing boundary conditions (ABC); Condition number; Domain decomposition method (DDM); Finite element method (FEM); Frequency domain analysis; Numerical analysis

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

ABSORBING BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONDITION NUMBER; DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHOD;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

EID: 9744273256     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.835265     Document Type: Article

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