Modified block preconditioners for the discretized time-harmonic Maxwell equations in mixed form (Q455873)

The finite element discretization of the mixed formulation of the time-harmonic Maxwell equations results in the saddle point linear systems. In general, the iterative solutions are used and they are accelerated by various preconditioners. Thus, efficient and effective preconditioning techniques are important issues. In this paper, the authors discuss about the modified block diagonal and triangular preconditioners based on augmentation with the symmetric nonsingular weighted matrix. They also give the spectral analysis of the preconditioned matrix and numerical experiments on the eigenvalue distributions using Krylov subspace method like GMRES(\(m\)). By their numerical experimental results, all eigenvalues of the preconditioned matrix are strongly clustered as expected by the theory.