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We study the systematic numerical approximation of Maxwell's equations in dispersive media. Two discretization strategies are considered, one based on a traditional leapfrog time integration method and the other based on convolution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Jürgen Dölz , Herbert Egger , Vsevolod Shashkov

The finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is employed to solve the three dimensional Maxwell equation for the situation of near-field microscopy using a sub-wavelength aperture. Experimental result on unexpected high spatial…

Optics · Physics 2009-10-31 H. Nakamura , K. Sawada , H. Kambe , T . Saiki , T. Sato

The Discontinuous Galerkin time-domain method is well suited for adaptive algorithms to solve the time-domain Maxwell's equations and depends on robust and economically computable drivers. Adaptive algorithms utilize local indicators to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Apurva Tiwari , Avijit Chatterjee

Using backpropagation to compute gradients of objective functions for optimization has remained a mainstay of machine learning. Backpropagation, or reverse-mode differentiation, is a special case within the general family of automatic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Atılım Güneş Baydin , Barak A. Pearlmutter , Don Syme , Frank Wood , Philip Torr

Time fractional advection-dispersion equations arise as generalizations of classical integer order advection-dispersion equations and are increasingly used to model fluid flow problems through porous media. In this paper we develop an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Carlos E. Mejía , Alejandro Piedrahita

Calibration of large-scale differential equation models to observational or experimental data is a widespread challenge throughout applied sciences and engineering. A crucial bottleneck in state-of-the art calibration methods is the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Jon Cockayne , Andrew B. Duncan

We consider time-harmonic Maxwell's equations set in an heterogeneous medium with perfectly conducting boundary conditions. Given a divergence-free right-hand side lying in $L^2$, we provide a frequency-explicit approximability estimate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-03 T. Chaumont-Frelet , P. Vega

This paper presents a novel adjoint solver for differentiable fluid simulation based on bidirectional flow maps. Our key observation is that the forward fluid solver and its corresponding backward, adjoint solver share the same flow map as…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Zhiqi Li , Jinjin He , Barnabás Börcsök , Taiyuan Zhang , Duowen Chen , Tao Du , Ming C. Lin , Greg Turk , Bo Zhu

A method to increase the precision of feedforward networks is proposed. It requires a prior knowledge of a target function derivatives of several orders and uses this information in gradient based training. Forward pass calculates not only…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-04-08 V. I. Avrutskiy

We examine convergence properties of continuous-time variants of accelerated Forward-Backward (FB) and Douglas-Rachford (DR) splitting algorithms for nonsmooth composite optimization problems. When the objective function is given by the sum…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Ibrahim K. Ozaslan , Mihailo R. Jovanović

Finding reliably and efficiently the spectrum of the resonant states of an optical system under varying parameters of the medium surrounding it is a technologically important task, primarily due to various sensing applications.…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-28 S. F. Almousa , E. A. Muljarov

This paper addresses the inverse scattering problem for Maxwell's equations. We first show that a bianisotropic scatterer can be uniquely determined from multi-static far-field data through the factorization analysis of the far-field…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Thu Le , Dinh-Liem Nguyen

This note offers a conceptually straightforward and efficient way to formulate and solve problems in the electromagnetics of moving media based on a representation of Maxwell's equations in terms of differential forms on spacetime together…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 C E S Canovan , Robin W Tucker

In this paper, we consider an initial boundary value problem for Maxwell's equations. For this hyperbolic type problem, we derive guaranteed and computable upper bounds for the difference between the exact solution and any pair of vector…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-23 Dirk Pauly , Sergey Repin , Tuomo Rossi

Purpose: Asymmetric gradient waveforms are attractive for diffusion encoding due to their superior efficiency, however, the asymmetry may cause a residual gradient moment at the end of the encoding. Depending on the experiment setup, this…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-09-05 Filip Szczepankiewicz , Carl-Fredrik Westin , Markus Nilsson

We propose a high-order FDTD scheme based on the correction function method (CFM) to treat interfaces with complex geometry without increasing the complexity of the numerical approach for constant coefficients. Correction functions are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-18 Yann-Meing Law , Alexandre Noll Marques , Jean-Christophe Nave

Rapid advances in deep learning have brought not only myriad powerful neural networks, but also breakthroughs that benefit established scientific research. In particular, automatic differentiation (AD) tools and computational accelerators…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-13 Yin Li , Chirag Modi , Drew Jamieson , Yucheng Zhang , Libin Lu , Yu Feng , François Lanusse , Leslie Greengard

This paper is concerned with the derivation of computable and guaranteed upper and lower bounds of the difference between the exact and the approximate solution of a boundary value problem for static Maxwell equations. Our analysis is based…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-05-23 Dirk Pauly , Sergey Repin

We propose a variation of the forward--backward splitting method for solving structured monotone inclusions. Our method integrates past iterates and two deviation vectors into the update equations. These deviation vectors bring flexibility…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-14 Hamed Sadeghi , Sebastian Banert , Pontus Giselsson

A more accurate, stable, finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) algorithm is developed for simulating Maxwell's equations with isotropic or anisotropic dielectric materials. This algorithm is in many cases more accurate than previous…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Gregory R. Werner , Carl A. Bauer , John R. Cary