Solution Process for an Electric Field Solution

Maxwell's electrostatic solver computes and stores the value of the electric potential at the vertices and midpoints of the edges of each tetrahedron in the finite element mesh. It solves for the electric field using the following relationship: .

After E is calculated, Maxwell writes out solution files and performs an error analysis. In an adaptive analysis, it refines the tetrahedra with the highest error, and continues solving until the stopping criterion is met. In a non-adaptive solution, the process stops.