Related papers: Preconditioning the discrete dipole approximation
The discrete-dipole approximation (DDA) is a flexible technique for computing scattering and absorption by targets of arbitrary geometry. In this paper we perform systematic study of various non-stationary iterative (conjugate gradient)…
The discrete-dipole approximation (DDA) is a powerful method for calculating absorption and scattering by targets that have sizes smaller than or comparable to the wavelength of the incident radiation. The DDA can be extended to targets…
We present a review of the discrete dipole approximation (DDA), which is a general method to simulate light scattering by arbitrarily shaped particles. We put the method in historical context and discuss recent developments, taking the…
In this manuscript we investigate the capabilities of the Discrete Dipole Approximation (DDA) to simulate scattering from particles that are much larger than the wavelength of the incident light, and describe an optimized publicly available…
The discrete dipole approximation (DDA) is a widely used and versatile numerical method for solving electromagnetic scattering by arbitrarily shaped objects. Despite its popularity, quantitative comparisons between independent…
The discrete-dipole approximation (DDA) is a powerful method for calculating absorption and scattering by targets that have sizes smaller than or comparable to the wavelength of the incident radiation. We present a new prescription -- the…
Tempered fractional diffusion equations are a crucial class of equations widely applied in many physical fields. In this paper, the Crank-Nicolson method and the tempered weighted and shifts Gr\"unwald formula are firstly applied to…
Rigorous coupled-wave analysis (RCWA) is a very effective tool for the studying optical properties of multilayered vertically invariant periodic structures. However, it fails to deal with arrays of small particles because of high gradients…
We consider the simulation of electromagnetic scattering by single and multiple isotropic homogeneous dielectric particles using boundary integral equations. Galerkin discretizations of the classical Poggio-Miller-Chang-Harrington-Wu-Tsai…
Motivated by the discrete dipole approximation (DDA) for the scattering of electromagnetic waves by a dielectric obstacle that can be considered as a simple discretization of a Lippmann-Schwinger style volume integral equation for…
In this work we propose a novel block preconditioner, labelled Explicit Decoupling Factor Approximation (EDFA), to accelerate the convergence of Krylov subspace solvers used to address the sequence of non-symmetric systems of linear…
By applying the linearly implicit conservative difference scheme proposed in [D.-L. Wang, A.-G. Xiao, W. Yang. J. Comput. Phys. 2014;272:670-681], the system of repulsive space fractional coupled nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations leads to a…
The discretization of the double-layer potential integral equation for the interior Dirichlet Laplace problem in a domain with smooth boundary results in a linear system that has a bounded condition number. Thus, the number of iterations…
We present a fast iterative solver for scattering problems in 2D, where a penetrable object with compact support is considered. By representing the scattered field as a volume potential in terms of the Green's function, we arrive at the…
The thermal discrete dipole approximation (T-DDA) is a numerical approach for modeling near-field radiative heat transfer in complex three-dimensional geometries. In this work, the convergence of the T-DDA is investigated by comparison…
A linearly implicit conservative difference scheme is applied to discretize the attractive coupled nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with fractional Laplacian. Complex symmetric linear systems can be obtained, and the system matrices are…
We present a method of incorporating the discrete dipole approximation (DDA) method with the point matching method to formulate the T-matrix for modeling arbitrarily shaped micro-sized objects. The \emph{T}-matrix elements are calculated…
This work presents a highly optimized computational framework for the Discrete Dipole Approximation, a numerical method for calculating the optical properties associated with a target of arbitrary geometry that is widely used in…
In this paper, we study a $\tau$-matrix approximation based preconditioner for the linear systems arising from discretization of unsteady state Riesz space fractional diffusion equation with non-separable variable coefficients. The…
We performed a rigorous theoretical convergence analysis of the discrete dipole approximation (DDA). We prove that errors in any measured quantity are bounded by a sum of a linear and quadratic term in the size of a dipole d, when the…