TY - JOUR T1 - Spectral Approximation of Time-Harmonic Maxwell Equations in Three-Dimensional Exterior Domains AU - Lina Ma, Jie Shen & Li-Lian Wang JO - International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling VL - 2 SP - 366 EP - 383 PY - 2015 DA - 2015/12 SN - 12 DO - http://doi.org/ UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/ijnam/494.html KW - Maxwell equations, exterior problems, transparent boundary conditions, vector spherical harmonics, Legendre spectral method. AB -
We develop in this paper an efficient and robust spectral-Galerkin method for solving the three-dimensional time-harmonic Maxwell equations in exterior domains. We first reduce the problem to a bounded domain by using the capacity operator which characterizes the transparent boundary condition (TBC). Then, we adopt the transformed field expansion (TFE) approach to reduce the problem to a sequence of Maxwell equations in a spherical shell. Finally, we develop an efficient spectral algorithm by using Legendre approximation in the radial direction and vector spherical harmonic expansion in the tangential directions.