ANALYSIS OF GALERKIN FEMS FOR MIXED FORMULATION OF TIME-DEPENDENT GINZBURG–LANDAU EQUATIONS UNDER TEMPORAL GAUGE

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1291–1312
Journal / PublicationSIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis
Volume56
Issue number3
Online published15 May 2018
Publication statusPublished - 2018

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Abstract

The paper focuses on analysis of linearized Galerkin FEMs for a mixed formulation of the time-dependent Ginzburg–Landau equations under the temporal gauge. We provide optimal error estimates in L2 -norm for the order parameter ψh and the magnetic field σh  unconditionally, although the accuracy of the numerical magnetic potential Ah is one-order lower than the optimal one due to the degeneracy of the magnetic potential equation. Since the states of superconductors are determined by the order parameter ψh (or the density of the superconducting electron pairs |ψh|), the accuracy of ψh is more important for the vortex simulation in superconditors. Our analysis is based on a nonclassical Ritz projection, which may reduce the pollution of inaccuracy of the numerical magnetic potential in analysis. Numerical experiments confirm our theoretical analysis.

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  • Galerkin FEMs, Ginzburg–Landau equations, Nonclassical Ritz projection, Optimal error estimate, Temporal gauge

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