Plane wave discontinuous Galerkin methods for the Helmholtz equation and Maxwell equations in anisotropic media

Abstract

In this paper we are concerned with plane wave discontinuous Galerkin (PWDG) methods for Helmholtz equation and time-harmonic Maxwell equations in three-dimensional anisotropic media, for which the coefficients of the equations are matrices instead of numbers. We first define novel plane wave basis functions based on rigorous choices of scaling transformations and coordinate transformations. Then we derive the error estimates of the resulting approximate solutions with respect to the condition number of the coefficient matrices, under a new assumption on the shape regularity of polyhedral meshes. Numerical results verify the validity of the theoretical results, and indicate that the approximate solutions generated by the proposed PWDG method possess high accuracy.