A broken FEEC framework for electromagnetic problems on mapped multipatch domains (Q6084625)

The paper at hand extends the theory of finite element exterior calculus (FEEC) to discrete de Rham sequences which are fully discontinuous across the patch interfaces. This allows structure-preserving approximation of partial differential equations on mapped multipatch domains analogous to the Conforming/Nonconforming Galerkin schemes developed in [\textit{M. Campos Pinto} and \textit{E. Sonnendrücker}, Math. Comput. 85, No. 302, 2651--2685 (2016; Zbl 1344.65092)]. The approach is based on: (i) the identification of a conforming discrete de Rham sequence with stable commuting projection operators, (ii) the relaxation of the continuity constraints between patches, and (iii) the construction of conforming projection maps to conforming subspaces, allowing to define discrete differentials on the broken sequence. This framework combines advantages of conforming FEEC discretizations such as commuting projections, discrete duality and Hodge-Helmholtz decompositions with data locality. The approach is applied to several initial-, boundary- and eigen-value problems arising in electromagnetics. The authors show their formulations to be well posed thanks to an appropriate stabilization of the jumps across patch interfaces. Numerical experiments confirm the accuracy and stability of the resultant schemes, and showcase the structure-preserving properties, e.g. divergence or harmonic constraints are respected up to floating-point accuracy.