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We develop a finite volume method for Maxwell's equations in materials whose electromagnetic properties vary in space and time. We investigate both conservative and non-conservative numerical formulations. High-order methods accurately…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Damian P. San Roman Alerigi , David I. Ketcheson , Boon S. Ooi

The increasing complexity and scale of photonic and electromagnetic devices demand efficient and accurate numerical solvers. In this work, we develop a parallel overlapping domain decomposition method (DDM) based on the finite-difference…

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This paper develops a strong computational approach to simulate a three-dimensional nonlinear radiation-conduction model in optically thick media, subject to suitable initial and boundary conditions. The space derivatives are approximated…

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Applications of metallic metamaterials have generated significant interest in recent years. Electromagnetic behavior of metamaterials in the optical range is usually characterized by a local-linear response. In this article, we develop a…

We introduce an efficient open-source python package for the inverse design of three-dimensional photonic nanostructures using the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method. Leveraging a flexible reverse-mode automatic differentiation…

To achieve efficient and accurate long-time integration, we propose a fast, accurate, and stable high-order numerical method for solving fractional-in-space reaction-diffusion equations. The proposed method is explicit in nature and…

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We propose high-order FDTD schemes based on the Correction Function Method (CFM) for Maxwell's interface problems with discontinuous coefficients and complex interfaces. The key idea of the CFM is to model the correction function near an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-11 Yann-Meing Law , Jean-Christophe Nave

The accuracy of finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) modelling of left-handed metamaterials (LHMs) is dramatically improved by using an averaging technique along the boundaries of LHM slabs. The material frequency dispersion of LHMs is…

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A new near-to-far-field transformation algorithm for three-dimensional finite-different time-domain is presented in this article. This new approach is based directly on the polarization current of the scatterer, not the scattered near…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Yong Zeng , Jerome V. Moloney

A finite difference numerical method is investigated for fractional order diffusion problems in one space dimension. For this, a mathematical model is developed to incorporate homogeneous Dirichlet and Neumann type boundary conditions. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-07 Béla J. Szekeres , Ferenc Izsák

The calculation of the local density of states (LDOS) in lossy materials has long been disputed due to the divergence of the homogeneous Green function with equal space arguments. For arbitrary shaped lossy structures, such as those of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-27 C. Van Vlack , S. Hughes

In this Letter, it is proposed a method which utilizes three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations of light propagation for restoring the effective Kerr nonlinearity of nanocomposite media. In this approach, a…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-20 Andrey V. Panov

In recent work, Li et al.\ (Comm.\ Math.\ Sci., 7:81-107, 2009) developed a diffuse-domain method (DDM) for solving partial differential equations in complex, dynamic geometries with Dirichlet, Neumann, and Robin boundary conditions. The…

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A second-order $L$-stable exponential time-differencing (ETD) method is developed by combining an ETD scheme with approximating the matrix exponentials by rational functions having real distinct poles (RDP), together with a dimensional…

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This paper introduces a new computational framework to derive electromagnetic field derivatives with respect to multiple design parameters up to any order with the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) technique. Specifically, only one FDTD…

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In this paper we deal with the well-known nonlinear Lorenz system that describes the deterministic chaos phenomenon. We consider an interesting problem with time-varying phenomena in quantum optics. Then we establish from the motion…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-11-20 Lazhar Bougoffa , Saud Al-Awfi , Smail Bougouffa

In this paper, the coupled fractional Ginzburg-Landau equations are first time investigated numerically. A linearized implicit finite difference scheme is proposed. The scheme involves three time levels, is unconditionally stable and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-01 Dongdong He , Kejia Pan

Fractional differential equations (FDEs) are an extension of the theory of fractional calculus. However, due to the difficulty in finding analytical solutions, there have not been extensive applications of FDEs until recent decades. With…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Nirupama Bhattacharya , Gabriel A. Silva

In this work, we present a comprehensive numerical framework that couples numerical solutions of Maxwell's equations using the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) approach, Molecular Dynamics (MD), and the Two-Temperature Model (TTM) to…

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