The Holland method is a modication of a classical Yee scheme introduced to deal with thin conducting wires when solving Maxwell's equations. This method can be very accurate, but it requires a careful calibration.
There still does not exist any systematic recipe for this calibration but, in a previous work we have introduced an augmented Galerkin scheme adapted to the simulation of wave propagation in 2-D domains with small holes and we have shown that, for canonical situations, this numerical scheme could actually provide an automatic process for the calibration of the Holland method. In this talk we would like to describe precisely how, under symmetry assumptions, the traditional Holland scheme used for solving 3-D Maxwell's equations around thin wires actually reduces to this 2-D model situation. We will also present new theoretical results of numerical analysis on this subject
