Title
An a posteriori error estimator for hp-adaptive discontinuous Galerkin methods for computing band gaps in photonic crystals
Abstract
In this paper we propose and analyze an hp-adaptive discontinuous finite element method for computing the band structure of 2D periodic photonic crystals. The spectrum of a 2D photonic crystal is approximated by computing the discrete spectrum of members of a family of periodic Hermitian eigenvalue problems on the primitive cell, parametrized by a two-dimensional parameter - the quasimomentum. We propose a residual-based error estimator and show that it is reliable and efficient for all eigenvalue problems in the family. In particular we prove that if the error estimator converges to zero, then the distance of the computed eigenfunction from the true eigenspace also converges to zero, and so the computed eigenvalue converges to a true eigenvalue. The results hold for eigenvalues of any multiplicity. We illustrate the benefits of the resulting hp-adaptive method numerically, both for fully periodic crystals and also for crystals with defects.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.cam.2012.02.007
J. Computational Applied Mathematics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
computed eigenfunction,true eigenvalue,hp-adaptive discontinuous galerkin method,error estimator converges,computed eigenvalue converges,posteriori error estimator,band gap,finite element method,periodic photonic crystal,periodic crystal,discrete spectrum,periodic hermitian eigenvalue problem,eigenvalue problem
Journal
236
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
18
0377-0427
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
7
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Stefano Giani1369.55