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We present a numerical method for solving the free-space Maxwell's equations in three dimensions using compact convolution kernels on a rectangular grid. We first rewrite Maxwell's Equations as a system of wave equations with auxiliary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Boris Lo , Phillip Colella

In this paper we present a novel pressure-based semi-implicit finite volume solver for the equations of compressible ideal, viscous and resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). The new method is conservative for mass, momentum and total energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-26 Michael Dumbser , Dinshaw S. Balsara , Maurizio Tavelli , Francesco Fambri

We present a mimetic finite-difference approach for solving Maxwell's equations in one and two spatial dimensions. After introducing the governing equations and the classical Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method, we describe mimetic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Johnny Corbino

In this paper, we propose fast solvers for Maxwell's equations in rectangular domains. We first discretize the simplified Maxwell's eigenvalue problems by employing the lowest-order rectangular N\'ed\'elec elements and derive the discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Lixiu Wang , Lueling Jia , Zijian Cao , Huiyuan Li , Zhimin Zhang

We propose a novel finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) scheme for the solution of the Maxwell's equations in which linear dispersive effects are present. The method uses high-order accurate approximations in space and time for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-15 Michael J. Jenkinson , Jeffrey W. Banks

A semi-implicit finite difference time domain (FDTD) numerical Maxwell solver is developed for full electromagnetic Particle-in-Cell (PIC) codes for the simulations of plasma-based acceleration. The solver projects the volumetric Yee…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Alexander Pukhov

We present a fully adaptive multiresolution scheme for spatially one-dimensional quasilinear strongly degenerate parabolic equations with zero-flux and periodic boundary conditions. The numerical scheme is based on a finite volume…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-06-22 Raimund Bürger , Ricardo Ruiz Baier , Mauricio Sepúlveda , Kai Schneider

We describe a fourth-order accurate finite-difference time-domain scheme for solving dispersive Maxwell's equations with nonlinear multi-level carrier kinetics models. The scheme is based on an efficient single-step three time-level…

We present a new algorithm for the discretization of the Vlasov-Maxwell system of equations for the study of plasmas in the kinetic regime. Using the discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for the spatial discretization, we obtain a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 J. Juno , A. Hakim , J. TenBarge , E. Shi , W. Dorland

A Finite Volume (FV) scheme is developed for solving the extended magnetohydrodynamic (XMHD) equations, yielding accurate results in the ideal, resistive, and Hall MHD limits. This is accomplished by first re-writing the XMHD equations such…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Yi Han Toh , Joshua Dolence , Karthik Duraisamy

In this paper we propose and analyze finite element discontinuous Galerkin methods for the one- and two-dimensional stochastic Maxwell equations with multiplicative noise. The discrete energy law of the semi-discrete DG methods were…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Jiawei Sun , Chi-Wang Shu , Yulong Xing

The features of propagation of intense waves are of great interest for theory and experiment in electrodynamics and acoustics. The behavior of nonlinear waves in a bounded volume is of especial importance and, at the same time, is an…

Classical Physics · Physics 2013-06-05 E. Yu. Petrov , A. V. Kudrin

A numerical approach for solving evolutionary partial differential equations in two and three space dimensions on block-based adaptive grids is presented. The numerical discretization is based on high-order, central finite-differences and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 Mario Sroka , Thomas Engels , Philipp Krah , Sophie Mutzel , Kai Schneider , Julius Reiss

The dynamics of collisionless plasmas can be modelled by the Vlasov-Maxwell system of equations. An Eulerian approach is needed to accurately describe processes that are governed by high energy tails in the distribution function, but is of…

A novel finite element method for the approximation of Maxwell's equations over hybrid two-dimensional grids is studied. The choice of appropriate basis functions and numerical quadrature leads to diagonal mass matrices which allow for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-22 Herbert Egger , Bogdan Radu

We present a new finite volume scheme for anisotropic heterogeneous diffusion problems on unstructured irregular grids, which simultaneously gives an approximation of the solution and of its gradient. In the case of simplicial meshes, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Jérôme Droniou , Robert Eymard

We present the first implementation of the Active Flux method on adaptively refined Cartesian grids. The Active Flux method is a third order accurate finite volume method for hyperbolic conservation laws, which is based on the use of point…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Donna Calhoun , Erik Chudzik , Christiane Helzel

We present a new method for solving the relativistic Vlasov--Maxwell system of equations, applicable to a wide range of extreme high-energy-density astrophysical and laboratory environments. The method directly discretizes the kinetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-20 James Juno , Grant Johnson , Alexander Philippov , Ammar Hakim , Alexander Chernoglazov , Shuzhe Zeng

A fully adaptive finite volume multiresolution scheme for one-dimensional strongly degenerate parabolic equations with discontinuous flux is presented. The numerical scheme is based on a finite volume discretization using the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-07-03 Raimund Bürger , Ricardo Ruiz Baier , Mauricio Sepúlveda , Kai Schneider

Three algebraically stabilized finite element schemes for discretizing convection-diffusion-reaction equations are studied on adaptively refined grids. These schemes are the algebraic flux correction (AFC) scheme with Kuzmin limiter, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-15 Abhinav Jha , Volker John , Petr Knobloch
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