An adaptive anisotropic perfectly matched layer method for 3-D time harmonic electromagnetic scattering problems (Q2435053)

The authors develop an anisotropic PML method for solving time-harmonic electromagnetic scattering problems. The PML layer is placed outside a cuboid domain and the coordinate stretching is performed only in one direction. The stability and convergence of the PML method is proved by using the Stratton-Chu formula and the idea of complex coordinate stretching. The PML parameters such as the thickness of the layer and the absorbing medium property can be determined through sharp a posteriori error estimates. Combined with the adaptive finite element method, the proposed adaptive anisotropic PML method provides a complete numerical strategy to solve the scattering problem in the framework of FEM which produces automatically a coarse mesh size away from the fixed domain and thus makes the total computational costs insensitive to the choice of the thickness of the PML layer. The authors report on two numerical experiments to illustrate the competitive behavior of the proposed adaptive method.