Scientific Computing, Applied & Industrial Mathematics Seminar: Wenke Wilhelms

  • Date: 12/05/2017
  • Time: 12:30
Lecturer(s):
Wenke Wilhelms, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of British Columbia
Location: 

University of British Columbia

Topic: 

A Mimetic Multiscale Method for Electromagnetic Simulations

Description: 

We develop a mimetic multiscale method to simulate quasi-static Maxwell's equations in frequency domain. This is especially useful for extensive geophysical models that include small-scale features. Applying the concept of multiscale methods, we avoid setting up a large and costly system of equations on the fine mesh where the material parameters are discretized on. Instead, we build and solve a system on a much coarser mesh. For doing that, it is inevitable to interpolate between fine and coarse meshes. The construction of this coarse-to-fine interpolation is done by solving local optimization problems on each coarse cell incorporating the fine-mesh features. With our method being mimetic, the properties of the continuous differential operators are preserved in their discrete counterparts and thus, the resulting simulations do not contain spurious modes.

Other Information: 

Day and time: Tuesday December 5, 12:30 pm
Location: ESB 4133 (PIMS Lounge)