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The traditional finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is constrained by the Courant-Friedrich-Levy (CFL) condition and suffers from the notorious staircase error in electromagnetic simulations. This paper proposes a three-dimensional…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Hanhong Liu , Xiaoying Zhao , Xiang-Hua Wang , Shunchuan Yang , Zhizhang , Chen

We describe a parallel algorithm for solving the time-independent 3d Schrodinger equation using the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. We introduce an optimized parallelization scheme that reduces communication overhead between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Michael Strickland , David Yager-Elorriaga

In this paper, we propose a discrete perfectly matched layer (PML) for the peridynamic scalar wave-type problems in viscous media. Constructing PMLs for nonlocal models is often challenging, mainly due to the fact that nonlocal operators…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Yu Du , Yonglin Li , Jiwei Zhang

An efficient finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) algorithm is built to solve the transverse electric 2D Maxwell's equations with inhomogeneous dielectric media where the electric fields are discontinuous across the dielectric interface.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-14 Timothy Meagher , Bin Jiang , Peng Jiang

A novel 3-D higher-order finite-difference time-domain framework with complex frequency-shifted perfectly matched layer for the modeling of wave propagation in cold plasma is presented. Second- and fourth-order spatial approximations are…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-10-25 Konstantinos P. Prokopidis

Perfectly Matched Layer (PML) is a widely adopted non-reflecting boundary treatment for wave simulations. Reducing numerical reflections from a discretized PML has been a long lasting challenge. This paper presents a new discrete PML for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Albert Chern

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

A new domain decomposition method is introduced for the heterogeneous 2-D and 3-D Helmholtz equations. Transmission conditions based on the perfectly matched layer (PML) are derived that avoid artificial reflections and match incoming and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-24 Christiaan C. Stolk

This paper considers the scattering of a time-harmonic acoustic plane wave by an elastic body with an unbounded periodic surface. The original problem can be confined to the analysis of the fields in one periodic cell. With the help of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Sijia Li , Lei Lin , Junliang Lv

The computational efficiency of the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method can be significantly reduced by the presence of complex objects with fine features. Small geometrical details impose a fine mesh and a reduced time step,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Xinyue Zhang , Fadime Bekmambetova , Piero Triverio

A nonlocal perfectly matched layer (PML) is formulated for the nonlocal wave equation in the whole real axis and numerical discretization is designed for solving the reduced PML problem on a bounded domain. The nonlocal PML poses challenges…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Yu Du , Jiwei Zhang

This letter is devoted to point out a specific character of the Finite-Difference-Time-Domain method through the study of nano-structures supporting geometrical symmetry-protected modes that can not be excited at certain conditions of…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-02 A. Hoblos , M. Suarez , B. Guichardaz , N. Courjal , M. -P. Bernal , F. I. Baida

Numerical discretization of the large-scale Maxwell's equations leads to an ill-conditioned linear system that is challenging to solve. The key requirement for successive solutions of this linear system is to choose an efficient solver. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-31 Sahar Borzooei , Victorita Dolean , Pierre-Henri Tournier , Claire Migliaccio

In this work, we present a numerical method that remedies the instabilities of the conventional FDTD approach for solving Maxwell's equations in a space-time dependent magneto-electric medium with direct application to the simulation of the…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jason Cornelius , Jinjie Liu , Moysey Brio

This paper proposes a new boundary integral equation (BIE) methodology based on the perfectly matched layer (PML) truncation technique for solving the electromagnetic scattering problems in a multi-layered medium. Instead of using the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Gang Bao , Wangtao Lu , Tao Yin , Lu Zhang

The convergence rate of domain decomposition methods (DDMs) strongly depends on the transmission condition at the interfaces between subdomains. Thus, an important aspect in improving the efficiency of such solvers is careful design of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Niall Bootland , Sahar Borzooei , Victorita Dolean , Pierre-Henri Tournier

The timestep of the Finite-Difference Time-Domain method (FDTD) is constrained by the stability limit known as the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL) condition. This limit can make FDTD simulations quite time consuming for structures containing…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-06-29 Xihao Li , Costas D. Sarris , Piero Triverio

The perfectly matched layers method is a well known truncation technique for its efficiency and convenience in numerical implementations of wave scattering problems in unbounded domains. In this paper, we study the convergence of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Andreas Kirsch , Ruming Zhang

We prove stability and exponential convergence of the Perfectly Matched Layer (PML) method for acoustic scattering on manifolds with axial analytic quasicylindrical ends. These manifolds model long-range geometric perturbations (e.g.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-07-23 Victor Kalvin

Perfectly-Matched Layers (PML) are widely used in Particle-In-Cell simulations, in order to absorb electromagnetic waves that propagate out of the simulation domain. However, when charged particles cross the interface between the simulation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-09-02 Remi Lehe , Aurore Blelly , Lorenzo Giacomel , Revathi Jambunathan , Jean-Luc Vay