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

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.