THE COUPLING OF NATURAL BOUNDARY ELEMENT AND FINITE ELEMENT METHOD FOR 2D HYPERBOLIC EQUATIONS

In this paper, we investigate the coupling of natural boundary element and finite element methods of exterior initial boundary value problems for hyperbolic equations. The governing equation is first discretized in time, leading to a time-step scheme, where an exterior elliptic problem has to be solved in each time step. Second, a circular artificial boundary TR consisting of a circle of radius R is introduced, the original problem in an unbounded domain is transformed into the nonlocal boundary value problem in a bounded subdomain. And the natural integral equation and the Poisson integral formula are obtained in the infinite domain Ω2 outside circle of radius R. The coupled variational formulation is given. Only the function itself, not its normal derivative at artificial boundary TR, appears in the variational equation, so that the unknown numbers are reduced and the boundary element stiffness matrix has a few different elements. Such a coupled method is superior to the one based on direct boundary element method. This paper discusses finite element discretization for variational problem and its corresponding numerical technique, and the convergence for the numerical solutions. Finally, the numerical example is presented to illustrate feasibility and efficiency of this method.

SUPERCONVERGENCE OF LEAST-SQUARES MIXED FINITE ELEMENT FOR SECOND-ORDER ELLIPTIC PROBLEMS

In this paper the least-squares mixed finite element is considered for solving second-order elliptic problems in two dimensional domains. The primary solution u and the flux σ are approximated using finite element spaces consisting of piecewise polynomials of degree k and r respectively. Based on interpolation operators and an auxiliary projection, superconvergent H1-error estimates of both the primary solution approximation uh and the flux approximation σh are obtained under the standard quasi-uniform assumption on finite element partition. The superconvergence indicates an accuracy of O(hr+2) for the least-squares mixed finite element approximation if Raviart-Thomas or Brezzi-Douglas-Fortin-Marini elements of order r are employed with optimal error estimate of O(hr+1).

NATURAL BOUNDARY INTEGRAL METHOD AND ITS NEW DEVELOPMENT

In this paper, the natural boundary integral method, and some related methods, including coupling method of the natural boundary elements and finite elements, which is also called DtN method or the method with exact artificial boundary conditions, domain decomposition methods based on the natural boundary reduction, and the adaptive boundary element method with hyper-singular a posteriori error estimates, are discussed.

AN H-BASED A- φMETHOD WITH A NONMATCHING GRID FOR EDDY CURRENT PROBLEM WITH DISCONTINUOUS COEFFICIENTS

In this paper, we investigate the finite element A-φ method to approximate the eddy current equations with discontinuous coefficients in general three-dimensional Lipschitz polyhedral eddy current region. Nonmatching finite element meshes on the interface are considered and optimal error estimates are obtained.