TY - JOUR T1 - Parallel Hierarchical Matrix Preconditioners for the Curl-Curl Operator JO - Journal of Computational Mathematics VL - 5 SP - 624 EP - 641 PY - 2009 DA - 2009/10 SN - 27 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.2009.27.5.014 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jcm/8593.html KW - Computational electromagnetism, Preconditioners, Hierarchical matrices, Parallelization. AB -

This paper deals with the preconditioning of the curl-curl operator. We use

$\boldsymbol{H}$(curl)-conforming finite elements for the discretization of our corresponding magnetostatic model problem. Jumps in the material parameters influence the condition of the problem. We will demonstrate by theoretical estimates and numerical experiments that hierarchical matrices are well suited to construct efficient parallel preconditioners for the fast and robust iterative solution of such problems.