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Edge (or N\'ed\'elec) finite elements are theoretically sound and widely used by the computational electromagnetics community. However, its implementation, specially for high order methods, is not trivial, since it involves many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Marc Olm , Santiago Badia , Alberto F. Martín

In this paper, we construct an adaptive multiscale method for solving H(curl)-elliptic problems in highly heterogeneous media. Our method is based on the generalized multiscale finite element method. We will first construct a suitable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-09 Eric T. Chung , Yanbo Li

In this paper we prove an optimal error estimate for the H(curl)-conforming projection based p-interpolation operator introduced in [L. Demkowicz and I. Babuska, p interpolation error estimates for edge finite elements of variable order in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-03-27 Alexei Bespalov , Norbert Heuer

A finite element approach for approximating the solution of a mathematical model for the response of a penetrable, bounded object (obstacle) to the excitation by an external electromagnetic field is presented and investigated. The model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Lutz Angermann

In this paper, we introduce a novel a posteriori error estimator for the conforming finite element approximation to the H(curl) problem with inhomogeneous media and with the right-hand side only in L^2. The estimator is of the recovery…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-13 Zhiqiang Cai , Shuhao Cao , Rob Falgout

In this paper, we discuss how to efficiently evaluate and assemble general finite element variational forms on H(div) and H(curl). The proposed strategy relies on a decomposition of the element tensor into a precomputable reference tensor…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-15 Marie Rognes , Robert C. Kirby , Anders Logg

We consider the numerical approximation of Maxwell's equations in time domain by a second order $H(curl)$ conforming finite element approximation. In order to enable the efficient application of explicit time stepping schemes, we utilize a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-14 Herbert Egger , Bogdan Radu

A construction of prismatic Hardy space infinite elements to discretize wave equations on unbounded domains $\Omega$ in $H^1_{loc}(\Omega)$, $H_{loc}(curl;\Omega)$ and $H_{loc}(div;\Omega)$ is presented. As our motivation is to solve…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-01 Lothar Nannen , Thorsten Hohage , Achim Schädle , Joachim Schöberl

We present a family of nonconforming vector finite elements of arbitrary order for problems posed on the space (curl) intersected with H(div) on a bidimensional domain. This result was first stated as a conjecture by Brenner and Sung. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-06 Jean-Marie Mirebeau

We establish improved convergence rates for curved boundary element methods applied to the three-dimensional (3D) Laplace and Helmholtz equations with smooth geometry and data. Our analysis relies on a precise analysis of the consistency…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Luiz Maltez Faria , Pierre Marchand , Hadrien Montanelli

New variational formulations are devised for the curl--div system, and the corresponding finite element approximations are shown to converge. Curl--free and divergence--free finite elements are employed for discretizing the problem.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-31 Ana Alonso Rodríguez , Enrico Bertolazzi , Alberto Valli

We develop a high order reconstructed discontinuous approximation (RDA) method for solving a mixed formulation of the quad-curl problem in two and three dimensions. This mixed formulation is established by adding an auxiliary variable to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-12 Ruo Li , Qicheng Liu , Shuhai Zhao

In this paper, we propose a new family of H(curl^2)-conforming elements for the quad-curl eigenvalue problem in 2D. The accuracy of this family is one order higher than that in [32]. We prove a priori and a posteriori error estimates. The a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-06 Lixiu Wang , Qian Zhang , Jiguang Sun , Zhimin Zhang

We propose two families of nonconforming elements on cubical meshes: one for the $-\text{curl}\Delta\text{curl}$ problem and the other for the Brinkman problem. The element for the $-\text{curl}\Delta\text{curl}$ problem is the first…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-14 Qian Zhang , Min Zhang , Zhimin Zhang

Based on the Stokes complex with vanishing boundary conditions and its dual complex, we reinterpret a grad-curl problem arising from the quad-curl problem as a new vector potential formulation of the three-dimensional Stokes system. By…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Xiaojing Dong , Yibing Han , Yunqing Huang

Two nonconforming finite element Stokes complexes starting from the conforming Lagrange element and ending with the nonconforming $P_1$-$P_0$ element for the Stokes equation in three dimensions are constructed. And commutative diagrams are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-01 Xuehai Huang

In recent papers the author introduced a simple alternative to isoparametric finite elements of the n-simplex type, to enhance the accuracy of approximations of second-order boundary value problems with Dirichlet conditions, posed in smooth…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-25 Vitoriano Ruas

We present a local construction of H(curl)-conforming piecewise polynomials satisfying a prescribed curl constraint. We start from a piecewise polynomial not contained in the H(curl) space but satisfying a suitable orthogonality property.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-23 Théophile Chaumont-Frelet , Martin Vohralík

We construct conforming finite elements for the spaces $H(\text{sym}\,\text{Curl})$ and $H(\text{dev}\,\text{sym}\,\text{Curl})$. Those are spaces of matrix-valued functions with symmetric or deviatoric-symmetric $\text{Curl}$ in a Lebesgue…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-21 Oliver Sander

The biharmonic equation with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions discretized using the mixed finite element method and piecewise linear (with the possible exception of boundary triangles) finite elements on triangular elements has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Oded Stein , Eitan Grinspun , Alec Jacobson , Max Wardetzky