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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)…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Piotr J. Flatau

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. T. Draine , P. J. Flatau

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…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-30 Maxim A. Yurkin , Alfons G. Hoekstra

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…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maxim A. Yurkin , Valeri P. Maltsev , Alfons G. Hoekstra

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Clément Argentin , Patrick C. Chaumet , Michel Gross , Maxim A. Yurkin

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Matthew J. Collinge , B. T. Draine

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-01 Xuan Zhang , Chaojie Wang , Haiyu Liu

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…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-08 Ilia M. Fradkin , Sergey A. Dyakov , Nikolay A. Gippius

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-14 Antigoni Kleanthous , Timo Betcke , David P. Hewett , Matthew W. Scroggs , Anthony J. Baran

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Martin Costabel , Monique Dauge , Khadijeh Nedaiasl

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Stefano Nardean , Massimiliano Ferronato , Ahmad S. Abushaikha

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Fei-Yan Zhang , Xi Yang , Chao Chen

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-27 Bryan Quaife , George Biros

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Vaishnavi Gujjula , Sivaram Ambikasaran

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-10-19 Sheila Edalatpour , Martin Cuma , Tyler Trueax , Roger Backman , Mathieu Francoeur

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-19 Yan Cheng , Xi Yang

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-07 James Mc Donald , Aaron Golden , S. Gerard Jennings

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-18 Xue-Lei Lin , Michael K. Ng

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…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-31 Maxim A. Yurkin , Valeri P. Maltsev , Alfons G. Hoekstra
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