TY - JOUR T1 - An Adaptive Finite Element PML Method for the Open Cavity Scattering Problems AU - Chen , Yanli AU - Li , Peijun AU - Yuan , Xiaokai JO - Communications in Computational Physics VL - 5 SP - 1505 EP - 1540 PY - 2021 DA - 2021/03 SN - 29 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2020-0115 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/18724.html KW - Electromagnetic cavity scattering, TM and TE polarizations, perfectly matched layer, adaptive finite element method, a posteriori error estimates. AB -

Consider the electromagnetic scattering of a time-harmonic plane wave by an open cavity which is embedded in a perfectly electrically conducting infinite ground plane. This paper is concerned with the numerical solutions of the transverse electric and magnetic polarizations of the open cavity scattering problems. In each polarization, the scattering problem is reduced equivalently into a boundary value problem of the two-dimensional Helmholtz equation in a bounded domain by using the transparent boundary condition (TBC). An a posteriori estimate based adaptive finite element method with the perfectly matched layer (PML) technique is developed to solve the reduced problem. The estimate takes account of both the finite element approximation error and the PML truncation error, where the latter is shown to decay exponentially with respect to the PML medium parameter and the thickness of the PML layer. Numerical experiments are presented and compared with the adaptive finite element TBC method for both polarizations to illustrate the competitive behavior of the proposed method.