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A spectral decomposition method to approximate DtN maps in complicated waveguides

Numerical Analysis 2022-07-27 v1 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new spectral decomposition method to simulate waves propagating in complicated waveguides. For the numerical solutions of waveguide scattering problems, an important task is to approximate the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map efficiently. From previous results, the physical solution can be decomposed into a family of generalized eigenfunctions, thus we can write the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map explicitly by these functions. From the exponential decay of the generalized eigenfunctions, we approximate the Dirichlet-to-Neumann (DtN) map by a finite truncation and the approximation is proved to converge exponentially. With the help of the truncated DtN map, the unbounded domain is truncated into a bounded one, and a variational formulation for the problem is set up in this bounded domain. The truncated problem is then solved by a finite element method. The error estimation is also provided for the numerical algorithm and numerical examples are shown to illustrate the efficiency of the algorithm.

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@article{arxiv.2207.12690,
  title  = {A spectral decomposition method to approximate DtN maps in complicated waveguides},
  author = {Ruming Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.12690},
  year   = {2022}
}
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