Title
Finite Element Approximation of the Spectrum of the Curl Operator in a Multiply Connected Domain.
Abstract
In this paper we are concerned with two topics: the formulation and analysis of the eigenvalue problem for the \(\mathop {\mathbf {curl}}\nolimits \) operator in a multiply connected domain and its numerical approximation by means of finite elements. We prove that the \(\mathop {\mathbf {curl}}\nolimits \) operator is self-adjoint on suitable Hilbert spaces, all of them being contained in the space for which \(\mathop {\mathbf {curl}}\nolimits \varvec{v}\cdot \varvec{n}=0\) on the boundary. Additional constraints must be imposed when the physical domain is not topologically trivial: we show that a viable choice is the vanishing of the line integrals of \(\varvec{v}\) on suitable homological cycles lying on the boundary. A saddle-point variational formulation is devised and analyzed, and a finite element numerical scheme is proposed. It is proved that eigenvalues and eigenfunctions are efficiently approximated and some numerical results are presented in order to assess the performance of the method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/s10208-018-9373-4
Foundations of Computational Mathematics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Spectrum of $$\mathop {\mathbf {curl}}\nolimits $$curl operator, Multiply connected domain, Finite element approximation, Force-free fields, Beltrami fields, 65N25, 65N30, 65N15, 76M10, 78M10
Saddle,Hilbert space,Line integral,Eigenfunction,Mathematical analysis,Finite element method,Operator (computer programming),Curl (mathematics),Mathematics,Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
6
1615-3375
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ana Alonso16517.55
Jessika Camaño292.66
R. Rodríguez37219.18
Alberto Valli47917.01
Pablo Venegas501.69