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We consider fundamental issues of the mathematical theory of the wave propagation in waveguides with inclusions. Analysis is performed in terms of a boundary eigenvalue problem for the Maxwell equations which is reduced to an eigenvalue…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-09-25 Yury Smirnov , Yury Shestopalov

We consider the Maxwell's equations with perfect electric conductor boundary conditions in three-dimensional unbounded domains which are the union of a bounded resonator and one or several semi-infinite waveguides. We are interested in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Anne-Sophie Bonnet-Ben Dhia , Lucas Chesnel , Sonia Fliss

We develop a stable finite difference method for the elastic wave equation in bounded media, where the material properties can be discontinuous at curved interfaces. The governing equation is discretized in second order form by a fourth or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Lu Zhang , Siyang Wang

Imposition methods of interface conditions for the second-order wave equation with non-conforming grids is considered. The spatial discretization is based on high order finite differences with summation-by-parts properties. Previously…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Gustav Eriksson

Immersed finite element (IFE) methods are a group of long-existing numerical methods for solving interface problems on unfitted meshes. A core argument of the methods is to avoid mesh regeneration procedure when solving moving interface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-01 Ruchi Guo

Immersed boundary methods are high-order accurate computational tools used to model geometrically complex problems in computational mechanics. While traditional finite element methods require the construction of high-quality boundary-fitted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Jennifer E. Fromm , Nils Wunsch , Kurt Maute , John A. Evans , Jiun-Shyan Chen

Two methods are explained to exactly solve Maxwell's equations where permittivity, permeability and conductivity may vary in space. In the constitutive relations, retardation is regarded. If the material properties depend but on one…

Optics · Physics 2012-08-20 Ulrich Brosa

The paper is devoted to the study of circularly coiled optical slab waveguides, which is also applicable to acoustical waveguides. We use a change of variables and the classical Frobenius method to compute Bessel functions of complex order…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Jaime Mora-Paz , Leszek Demkowicz , Christina G. Taylor , Jacob Grosek , Stefan Henneking

High index optical waveguide devices such as slab waveguides, strip waveguides and fibers play extremely important roles in a wide range of modern applications including telecommunications, sensing, lasing, interferometry, and resonant…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-04-30 Farzad Zangeneh-Nejad , Romain Fleury

Known methods for transverse confinement and guidance of light can be grouped into a few basic mechanisms, the most common being metallic reflection, total internal reflection and photonic-bandgap (or Bragg) reflection. All of them…

New implicit and implicit-explicit time-stepping methods for the wave equation in second-order form are described with application to two and three-dimensional problems discretized on overset grids. The implicit schemes are single step,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-24 Allison M. Carson , Jeffrey W. Banks , William D. Henshaw , Donald W. Schwendeman

We present a new numerical scheme to solve the Helmholtz equation in a wave-guide. We consider a medium that is bounded in the $x_2$-direction, unbounded in the $x_1$-direction and $\varepsilon$-periodic for large $|x_1|$, allowing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Tomáš Dohnal , Ben Schweizer

We present a new technique for the design of transformation-optics devices based on large-scale optimization to achieve the optimal effective isotropic dielectric materials within prescribed index bounds, which is computationally cheap…

Optics · Physics 2013-06-11 David Liu , Lucas H. Gabrielli , Michal Lipson , Steven G. Johnson

In this work we analyze the complex scaling method applied to the problem of time-harmonic scalar wave propagation in junctions between `leaky,' or open dielectric waveguides. In [arXiv:2302.04353, arXiv:2310.05816, arXiv:2401.04674,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Charles L. Epstein , Tristan Goodwill , Jeremy Hoskins , Solomon Quinn , Manas Rachh

In this paper, a general methodology to study rigorously discontinuities in open waveguides is presented. It relies on a full vector description given by Maxwell's equations in the framework of the finite element method. The discontinuities…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Guillaume Demésy , Gilles Renversez

The aim of this lecture is to consider a concrete problem, namely the identification of situations of invisibility in waveguides, to present techniques and tools that may be useful in various fields of applied mathematics. To be more…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-13 Lucas Chesnel

A waveguide coincides with a three-dimensional domain G having finitely many cylindrical outlets to infinity; the boundary of G is smooth. In G, we consider the stationary Maxwell system with real spectral parameter k and identity matrices…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-06-04 B. A. Plamenevskii , A. S. Poretckii

Immersion optics enable creation of systems with improved optical concentration and coupling by taking advantage of the fact that the luminance of light is proportional to the square of the refractive index in a lossless optical system.…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-22 Nina Vaidya , Olav Solgaard

Interface problems depict many fundamental physical phenomena and widely apply in the engineering. However, it is challenging to develop efficient fully decoupled numerical methods for solving degenerate interface problems in which the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Chen Fan , Zhiyue Zhang

The aim of this chapter is to make a review of the recent results using the Enclosure Method on inverse obstacle problems governed by the wave equation and the Maxwell system in time domain. We also describe some of unsolved problems…

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