Natural p-BEM for the electric field integral equation on screens

Alexei Bespalov and Norbert Heuer
IMA J. Numer. Anal. 30 (3), 595-628, 2010.

In this paper we analyse the p-version of the boundary element method for the electric field integral equation on a plane open surface with polygonal boundary. We prove convergence of the p-version with Raviart-Thomas parallelogram elements and derive an a priori error estimate which takes into account the strong singular behaviour of the solution at edges and corners of the surface. Key ingredient of our analysis is the orthogonality of discrete Helmholtz decompositions in a Sobolev space of order -½.