Developing Finite Element Methods for Maxwell's Equations in a Cole–Cole Dispersive Medium

Developing Finite Element Methods for Maxwell's Equations in a Cole-Cole Dispersive Medium

In this paper, we consider the time-dependent Maxwell’s equations when Cole–Cole dispersive medium is involved. The Cole–Cole model contains a fractional time derivative term, which couples with the standard Maxwell’s equations in free space and creates some challenges in developing and analyzing time-domain finite element methods for solving this model as mentioned in our earlier work [J. Li, ...

Unified Analysis of Time Domain Mixed Finite Element Methods for Maxwell’s Equations in Dispersive Media

In this paper, we consider the time dependent Maxwell’s equations when dispersive media are involved. The Crank-Nicolson mixed finite element methods are developed for three most popular dispersive medium models: the isotropic cold plasma, the one-pole Debye medium and the two-pole Lorentz medium. Optimal error estimates are proved for all three models solved by the Raviart-Thomas-Nédélec space...

Finite element methods for Maxwell's equations

Adaptive finite element methods for Maxwell equations

We report our recent efforts in developing adaptive finite element methods for solving electromagnetic problems. We shall first introduce the method for the Maxwell cavity problem with discontinuous coefficients. We then consider the eddy current model with voltage excitations for complicated three dimensional structures. Unique continuation on analytic curve and its application to Inverse Prob...

Finite Element Methods for Maxwell Equations

1. SOBOLEV SPACES AND WEAK FORMULATIONS Let Ω be a bounded Lipschitz domain in R. We introduce the Sobolev spaces H(curl ; Ω) = {v ∈ L(Ω), curlv ∈ L(Ω)}, H(div; Ω) = {v ∈ L(Ω),div v ∈ L(Ω)} The vector fields (E,H) belong to H(curl ; Ω) while the flux (D,B) in H(div; Ω). We shall use the unified notation H(d; Ω) with d = grad , curl , or div. Note that H(grad ; Ω) is the familiar H(Ω) space. The...