WIAS Preprint No. 649, (2001)
Finite element solution of conical diffraction problems
Authors
- Elschner, Johannes
- Hinder, Rainer
- Schmidt, Gunther
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification
- 78A45 78M10 65N30
Keywords
- Conical diffraction, system of Helmholtz equations, transmission problem, strongly elliptic variational formulation, finite element solution
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Abstract
This paper is devoted to the numerical study of diffraction by periodic structures of plane waves under oblique incidence. For this situation Maxwell's equations can be reduced to a system of two Helmholtz equations in ℝ2 coupled via quasiperiodic transmission conditions on the piecewise smooth interfaces between different materials. The numerical analysis is based on a strongly elliptic variational formulation of the differential problem in a bounded periodic cell involving nonlocal boundary operators. We obtain existence and uniqueness results for discrete solutions and provide the corresponding error analysis.
Appeared in
- Advances in Computational Mathematics 16 (2002), pp. 139-156
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