TY - JOUR
T1 - Spurious solutions in mixed finite element method for Maxwell's equations
T2 - Dispersion analysis and new basis functions
AU - Tobón, Luis
AU - Chen, Jiefu
AU - Liu, Qing Huo
PY - 2011/8/10
Y1 - 2011/8/10
N2 - The finite element method is a well known computational technique used to obtain numerical solutions to boundary-value problems including Maxwell's equations. This paper first presents a brief description of the mathematical structure, based on the De Rham diagram, to discretize Maxwell's equations. Then it uses a numerical dispersion analysis of the mixed finite element method with both electric and magnetic fields as unknowns to evaluate the presence of spurious solutions for different basis functions. These unwanted spurious solutions appear when the same order of element is used for electric and magnetic fields, while the system is free of spurious modes when different orders of elements are employed for electric and magnetic fields. In this work, finite elements in both frequency and time domain are studied, and the effects of these spurious solutions in both domains are analyzed in one- and three-dimensional cases.
AB - The finite element method is a well known computational technique used to obtain numerical solutions to boundary-value problems including Maxwell's equations. This paper first presents a brief description of the mathematical structure, based on the De Rham diagram, to discretize Maxwell's equations. Then it uses a numerical dispersion analysis of the mixed finite element method with both electric and magnetic fields as unknowns to evaluate the presence of spurious solutions for different basis functions. These unwanted spurious solutions appear when the same order of element is used for electric and magnetic fields, while the system is free of spurious modes when different orders of elements are employed for electric and magnetic fields. In this work, finite elements in both frequency and time domain are studied, and the effects of these spurious solutions in both domains are analyzed in one- and three-dimensional cases.
KW - Dispersion analysis
KW - Mixed finite element method
KW - Spurious solutions
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jcp.2011.05.035
DO - 10.1016/j.jcp.2011.05.035
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79960841455
SN - 0021-9991
VL - 230
SP - 7300
EP - 7310
JO - Journal of Computational Physics
JF - Journal of Computational Physics
IS - 19
ER -