电磁场数值分析18.pptVIP

* * -18- Introduction to the finite element method (FEM) (II) ---- the variational method Xie, Yongjun （谢拥军） Department of Microwave Telecommunication Engineering Introduction The variational method is a different way of applying the the finite element method. The method has been employed extensively in electromagnetic formulations in the past, but recently Galerkin’s method has most often been employed. With the variational method, instead of solving directly the governing equations, we minimize the “enengy functional” (or, more often, an “energy related functional” ) corresponding to the gov