A Nodal-based Finite Element Approximation of the Maxwell Problem Suitable for Singular Solutions

  • Authors:
  • Santiago Badia;Ramon Codina

  • Affiliations:
  • sbadia@cimne.upc.edu;ramon.codina@upc.edu

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

A new mixed finite element approximation of Maxwell's problem is proposed, its main features being that it is based on a novel augmented formulation of the continuous problem and the introduction of a mesh dependent stabilizing term, which yields a very weak control on the divergence of the unknown. The method is shown to be stable and convergent in the natural $H({\rm \mathbf{curl}}\, 0; \Omega)$ norm for this unknown. In particular, convergence also applies to singular solutions, for which classical nodal-based interpolations are known to suffer from spurious convergence upon mesh refinement.