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This is a companion report for the paper "Transverse electric scattering on inhomogeneous objects: Spectrum of integral operator and preconditioning" by the present authors. In this report we formulate the two-dimensional transverse…
The Electric Field Integral Equation (EFIE) is a well-established tool to solve electromagnetic scattering problems. However, the development of efficient and easy to implement preconditioners remains an active research area. In recent…
Transverse magnetic (TM) scattering of an electromagnetic wave from a periodic dielectric diffraction grating can mathematically be described by a volume integral equation. This volume integral equation, however, in general fails to feature…
This paper aims to address two issues of integral equations for the scattering of time-harmonic electromagnetic waves by a perfect electric conductor with Lipschitz continuous boundary: ill-conditioned {boundary element Galerkin matrices}…
We present a collection of well-conditioned integral equation methods for the solution of electrostatic, acoustic or electromagnetic scattering problems involving anisotropic, inhomogeneous media. In the electromagnetic case, our approach…
Many integral equation-based methods are available for problems of time-harmonic electromagnetic scattering from perfect electric conductors. Among the many challenges that arise in such calculations are the avoidance of spurious…
We propose a matrix-free finite element (FE) homogenization scheme that is considerably more efficient than generic FE implementations. The efficiency of our scheme follows from a preconditioned well-scaled reformulation allowing for the…
Fast, high-order accurate algorithms for electromagnetic scattering from axisymmetric objects are of great importance when modeling physical phenomena in optics, materials science (e.g. meta-materials), and many other fields of applied…
A time domain electric field volume integral equation (TD-EFVIE) solver is proposed for analyzing electromagnetic scattering from dielectric objects with Kerr nonlinearity. The nonlinear constitutive relation that relates electric flux and…
In this paper, an efficient and accurate unified approach is proposed to solve transverse magnetic scattering problems by multilayer embedded objects. In the proposed approach, an equivalent current density is derived when the equivalent…
This paper presents an efficient Krylov subspace iterative solver for the three-dimensional (3D) Helmholtz equation with non-constant coefficients and absorbing boundary conditions, combining high-resolution compact schemes with low-order…
The boundary integral method is an efficient approach for solving time-harmonic obstacle scattering problems by a bounded scatterer. This paper presents the directional preconditioner for the iterative solution of linear systems of the…
Transverse-electric (TE) surface plasmon polaritons are unique eigenmodes of a homogeneous graphene layer that are tunable with the chemical potential and temperature. However, as their dispersion curve spectrally lies just below the light…
We introduce the longitudinal and transverse static surface modes and use them to solve the full-wave electromagnetic scattering problem from penetrable objects. The longitudinal static modes are the eigenmodes with zero surface curl of the…
An implicit causal space-time Galerkin scheme applied to the contrast current density volume integral equation gives rise to a marching-on-in-time scheme known as the MOT-JVIE, which is accelerated and stabilized via a fully embedded FIR…
We analyze the inverse problem to reconstruct the shape of a three dimensional homogeneous dielectric obstacle from the knowledge of noisy far field data. The forward problem is solved by a system of second kind boundary integral equations.…
Optical diffraction tomography is an indispensable tool for studying objects in three-dimensions due to its ability to accurately reconstruct scattering objects. Until now this technique has been limited to coherent light because spatial…
Scattering by an isolated defect embedded in a dielectric medium of two dimensional periodicity is of interest in many sub-fields of electrodynamics. Present approaches to compute this scattering rely either on the Born approximation and…
Fourier-accelerated micromechanical homogenization has been developed and applied to a variety of problems, despite being prone to ringing artifacts. In addition, the majority of Fourier-accelerated solvers applied to FFT-accelerated…
We propose domain decomposition preconditioners for the solution of an integral equation formulation of forward and inverse acoustic scattering problems with point scatterers. We study both forward and inverse problems and propose…