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Energy Conserving Higher Order Mixed Finite Element Discretizations of Maxwell's Equations

Archana Arya·Kaushik Kalyanaraman
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We study a system of Maxwell's equations that describes the time evolution of electromagnetic fields with an additional electric scalar variable to make the system amenable to a mixed finite element spatial discretization. We demonstrate stability and energy conservation for the variational formulation of this Maxwell's system. We then discuss two implicit, energy conserving schemes for its temporal discretization: the classical Crank-Nicholson scheme and an implicit leapfrog scheme. We next show discrete stability and discrete energy conservation for the semi-discretization using these two time integration methods. We complete our discussion by showing that the error for the full discretization of the Maxwell's system with each of the two implicit time discretization schemes and with spatial discretization through a conforming sequence of de Rham finite element spaces converges quadratically in the step size of the time discretization and as an appropriate polynomial power of the mesh parameter in accordance with the choice of approximating polynomial spaces. Our results for the Crank-Nicholson method are generally well known but have not been demonstrated for this Maxwell's system. Our implicit leapfrog scheme is a new method to the best of our knowledge and we provide a complete error analysis for it. Finally, we show computational results to validate our theoretical claims using linear and quadratic Whitney forms for the finite element discretization for some model problems in two and three spatial dimensions.

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Archana Arya, Kaushik Kalyanaraman. 2024-02-14. Energy Conserving Higher Order Mixed Finite Element Discretizations of Maxwell's Equations. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10915-025-03032-7

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