supported in part by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.10771178 and 10676031);National Key Basic Research Program of China(973 Program)(Grant No.2005CB321702);the Key Proiect of Chinese Ministry of Education and Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department(Grant Nos.208093 and 07A068);Especially,the first author was also supported in part by Hunan Provincial Innovation Foundation for Postgraduate;supported by Alexander von Humboldt Research Award for Senior US Scientists,NSF DMS-0609727,NSFC-10528102;Furong Professor Scholar Program of Hunan Province of China through Xiangtan University
In this paper, we obtain optimal error estimates in both L^2-norm and H(curl)-norm for the Nedelec edge finite element approximation of the time-harmonic Maxwell's equations on a general Lipschitz domain discretize...