An adaptive edge element approximation of a quasilinear H(curl)-elliptic problem

Abstract

An adaptive edge element method is designed to approximate a quasilinear [Formula: see text]-elliptic problem in magnetism, based on a residual-type a posteriori error estimator and general marking strategies. The error estimator is shown to be both reliable and efficient, and its resulting sequence of adaptively generated solutions converges strongly to the exact solution of the original quasilinear system. Numerical experiments are provided to verify the validity of the theoretical results.