Covolume techniques for anisotropic media

DOI10.1007/BF01385505MaRDI QIDQ811103zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Xiaohua Hu, Roy Nicolaides

Publication date 1992

Published in Numerische Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/133618

zbMATH Keywords

anisotropic mediacomplementary volumeconvergencecovolume methoddiv-curl systemdual discretizationsdual pairs of mesheserror analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Applications to the sciences (65Z05) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25)

Review text

The covolume method, a new approach applicable on general meshes, is extended to discretize and numerically solve the div-curl system in anisotropic media. The covolume method gives simple schemes and good approximations to the solution of the div-curl system. It works directly with the system and utilizes dual pairs of meshes that are orthogonally related. Central to the approach is the introduction of field components tangent and normal to the edges of one of the meshes, and the employment of dual discretizations on the dual mesh pairs. The discretization procedures, schemes and error analysis are presented. The convergence of the method is proved.

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