A numerical minimization scheme for the complex Helmholtz equation

DOI10.1051/M2AN/2011017MaRDI QIDQ2842485zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Russell B. Richins, David C. Dobson

Publication date 14 August 2013

Published in European Series in Applied and Industrial Mathematics (ESAIM): Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.5319

zbMATH Keywords

error boundfinite element methodsHelmholtz equationnumerical experimentsvariational methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Laplace operator, Helmholtz equation (reduced wave equation), Poisson equation (35J05) Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Finite element, Galerkin and related methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M10)

Abstract: We use the work of Milton, Seppecher, and Bouchitt'{e} on variational principles for waves in lossy media to formulate a finite element method for solving the complex Helmholtz equation that is based entirely on minimization. In particular, this method results in a finite element matrix that is symmetric positive-definite and therefore simple iterative descent methods and preconditioning can be used to solve the resulting system of equations. We also derive an error bound for the method and illustrate the method with numerical experiments.

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