The BEM with graded meshes for the electric field integral equation on polyhedral surfaces (Q264107): Difference between revisions

The paper is devoted to the convergence analysis of the Galerkin boundary element method (BEM) on a sequence of anisotropic meshes for the electric field integral equation on a Lipschitz polyhedral surface. The authors establish quasi-optimal convergence for lowest-order Raviart-Thomas surface elements on anisotropic meshes graded towards the surface edges. The key ingredients of the convergence analysis are new component-wise stability properties and error estimates of the Raviart-Thomas interpolation on anisotropic elements, which allow to design a stable discrete decomposition of the boundary element space under a mild restriction on the strength of grading.