Research Article

New Preconditioners with Two Variable Relaxation Parameters for the Discretized Time-Harmonic Maxwell Equations in Mixed Form

Table 3

Iteration counts for different meshes, using BiCGSTAB with the preconditioner 𝑀 𝑘 , 𝜂 , 𝜀 satisfying 𝜂 𝑘 2 = 0 . 1 and 1 / 𝜀 = 𝜂 𝑘 2 . The iteration was stopped once 𝑟 ( 𝑘 ) / 𝑟 ( 0 ) 5 × 1 0 1 0 .

Mesh 𝑘 2 = 0 𝑘 2 = 0 . 2 5 𝑘 2 = 0 . 5 𝑘 2 = 1 𝑘 2 = 3 𝑘 2 = 4 𝑘 2 = 6 𝑘 2 = 1 0

8 × 8 2 2.5 2.5 2.5 3.5 4 4.5 5.5
1 6 × 1 6 2 2.5 2.5 2.5 3.5 4 4.5 5
3 2 × 3 2 2 2.5 2.5 2.5 3.5 4 4.5 5.5
6 4 × 6 4 2 2.5 2.5 2.5 3.5 4 5 5.5
1 2 8 × 1 2 8 2 2.5 3 3 4 4.5 5 6