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Structure-preserving mesh coupling based on the Buffa-Christiansen complex. (English) Zbl 1359.78020
Summary: The state of the art for mesh coupling at nonconforming interfaces is presented and reviewed. Mesh coupling is frequently applied to the modeling and simulation of motion in electromagnetic actuators and machines. The paper exploits Whitney elements to present the main ideas. Both interpolation- and projection-based methods are considered. In addition to accuracy and efficiency, we emphasize the question whether the schemes preserve the structure of the de Rham complex, which underlies Maxwell’s equations. As a new contribution, a structure-preserving projection method is presented, in which Lagrange multiplier spaces are chosen from the Buffa-Christiansen complex. Its performance is compared with a straightforward interpolation based on Whitney and de Rham maps, and with Galerkin projection.
##### MSC:
 78M10 Finite element, Galerkin and related methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory 65N30 Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs 14F40 de Rham cohomology and algebraic geometry
##### Software:
CGS; LehrFEM; PANG
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