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Some micromagnetic phenomena in rigid (ferro-)magnetic materials can be modelled by a non-convex minimisation problem. Typically, minimising sequences develop finer and finer oscillations and their weak limits do not attain the infimal energy. Solutions exist in a generalised sense and the observed microstructure can be described in terms of Young measures. A relaxation by convexifying the energy density resolves the essential macroscopic information. The numerical analysis of the relaxed problem faces convex but degenerated energy functionals in a setting similar to mixed finite element formulations. The lowest order conforming finite element schemes appear instable and nonconforming finite element methods are proposed. An a priori and a posteriori error analysis is presented for a penalised version of the side-restriction that the modulus of the magnetic field is bounded pointwise. Residual-based adaptive algorithms are proposed and experimentally shown to be efficient.
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Received June 24, 1999 / Revised version received August 24, 2000 / Published online May 4, 2001
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Carstensen, C., Prohl, A. Numerical analysis of relaxed micromagnetics by penalised finite elements. Numer. Math. 90, 65–99 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002110100268
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002110100268