Higher-order finite element methods for the nonlinear Helmholtz equation

DOI10.1007/S10915-024-02459-8MaRDI QIDQ6202024zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Barbara Verfürth

Publication date 21 February 2024

Published in Journal of Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.11027

zbMATH Keywords

error analysishigh wave numberhigher-order finite elementsnonlinear Helmholtz equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Fixed-point iterations (47J26) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) Finite element, Galerkin and related methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M10)

Abstract: In this work, we analyze the finite element method with arbitrary but fixed polynomial degree for the nonlinear Helmholtz equation with impedance boundary conditions. We show well-posedness and error estimates of the finite element solution under a resolution condition between the wave number $k$, the mesh size $h$ and the polynomial degree $p$ of the form ``$k(kh{)}^{p+1}$ sufficiently small and a so-called smallness of the data assumption. For the latter, we prove that the logarithmic dependence in $h$ from the case $p=1$ in [H.~Wu, J.~Zou, emph{SIAM J.~Numer.~Anal.} 56(3): 1338-1359, 2018] can be removed for $pgeq2$. We show convergence of two different fixed-point iteration schemes. Numerical experiments illustrate our theoretical results and compare the robustness of the iteration schemes with respect to the size of the nonlinearity and the right-hand side data.

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