The Validity of Johnson-Nédélec's BEM-FEM Coupling on Polygonal Interfaces

  • Authors:
  • Francisco-Javier Sayas

  • Affiliations:
  • jsayas@unizar.es

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
  • Year:
  • 2009

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

In this short article we prove that the classical one-equation (or Johnson-Nédélec) coupling of finite and boundary elements can be applied with a Lipschitz coupling interface. Because of the way it was originally approached from the analytical standpoint, this BEM-FEM scheme required smooth boundaries and hence produced a consistency error in the finite element part. With a variational argument, we prove that this requirement is not needed and that stability holds for all pairs of discrete space, as it inherits the underlying ellipticity of the problem.