A Superconvergent HDG Method for the Maxwell Equations
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- 作者：Huangxin Chen ; Weifeng Qiu ; Ke Shi ; Manuel Solano
- 关键词：Discontinuous Galerkin ; Hybridization ; Maxwell equations ; Superconvergence ; Simplicial mesh ; General polyhedral mesh
- 刊名：Journal of Scientific Computing
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：March 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：70
- 期：3
- 页码：1010-1029
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- 刊物类别：Mathematics and Statistics
- 刊物主题：Algorithms; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics;
- 出版者：Springer US
- ISSN：1573-7691
- 卷排序：70
文摘
We present and analyze a new hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method for the steady state Maxwell equations. In order to make the problem well-posed, a condition of divergence is imposed on the electric field. Then a Lagrange multiplier p is introduced, and the problem becomes the solution of a mixed curl–curl formulation of the Maxwell’s problem. We use polynomials of degree \(k+1\), k, k to approximate \({{\varvec{u}}},\nabla \times {{\varvec{u}}}\) and p respectively. In contrast, we only use a non-trivial subspace of polynomials of degree \(k+1\) to approximate the numerical tangential trace of the electric field and polynomials of degree \(k+1\) to approximate the numerical trace of the Lagrange multiplier on the faces. On the simplicial meshes, we show that the convergence rates for \(\varvec{u}\) and \(\nabla \times \varvec{u}\) are independent of the Lagrange multiplier p. If we assume the dual operator of the Maxwell equation on the domain has adequate regularity, we show that the convergence rate for \(\varvec{u}\) is \(O(h^{k+2})\). From the point of view of degrees of freedom of the globally coupled unknown: numerical trace, this HDG method achieves superconvergence for the electric field without postprocessing. Finally, we show that the superconvergence of the HDG method is also derived on general polyhedral elements. Numerical results are given to verify the theoretical analysis.