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A staggered discontinuous Galerkin method for wave propagation in media with dielectrics and meta-materials

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JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Volume 239, Issue -, Pages 189-207

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DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2012.09.033

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Wave diffraction problem; Negative index materials; Meta-materials; T-coercivity; Staggered discontinuous Galerkin finite elements; Convergence and stability

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  1. Hong Kong RGC General Research Fund [401010]

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Some electromagnetic materials exhibit, in a given frequency range, effective dielectric permittivity and/or magnetic permeability which are negative. In the literature, they are called negative index materials, left-handed materials or meta-materials. We propose in this paper a numerical method to solve a wave transmission between a classical dielectric material and a meta-material. The method we investigate can be considered as an alternative method compared to the method presented by the second author and co-workers. In particular, we shall use the abstract framework they developed to prove well-posedness of the exact problem. We recast this problem to fit later discretization by the staggered discontinuous Galerkin method developed by the first author and co-worker, a method which relies on introducing an auxiliary unknown. Convergence of the numerical method is proven, with the help of explicit inf-sup operators, and numerical examples are provided to show the efficiency of the method. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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