A domain decomposition method for solving the three-dimensional time-harmonic Maxwell equations discretized by discontinuous Galerkin methods (Q2476870)

A domain decomposition method is presented for solving the three-dimensional time-harmonic Maxwell system, in the form of first-order partial differential equations, discretized by a discontinuous Galerkin method. To deal with irregularly shaped geometries, the discontinuous Galerkin method is formulated on unstructured tetrahedral meshes. The domain decomposition strategy takes the form of a Schwarz-type algorithm where a continuity condition on the incoming characteristic variables is imposed at the interfaces between neighboring subdomains. A multifrontal sparse direct solver is used at the subdomain level. Thus the proposed domain decomposition strategy can be viewed as a hybrid iterative/direct solution method for the large sparse complex linear algebraic system resulting from the discontinuous Galerkin discretization of the time-harmonic Maxwell equations. This paper essentially emphasizes computation aspects of the method and itself does not perform theoretical analysis of the discretization method, but quotes various related results in references. A number of numerical results including a bioelectromagnetics application are given, and are effective to see the applicability of the proposed method.