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Electromagnetic scattering in moving structures is a fundamental topic in physics and engineering. Yet, no general numerical solution to related problems has been reported to date. We introduce here a generalized FDTD scheme to remedy this…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Zoé-Lise Deck-Léger , Amir Bahrami , Zhiyu Li , Christophe Caloz

We develop a family of stabilized backward differentiation formula (sBDF) schemes of orders one through four for semilinear parabolic equations. The proposed methods are designed to achieve three properties that are rarely available…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Haishen Dai , Huan Lei , Bin Zheng

Two algorithms that combine Brownian dynamics (BD) simulations with mean-field partial differential equations (PDEs) are presented. This PDE-assisted Brownian dynamics (PBD) methodology provides exact particle tracking data in parts of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-06-27 Benjamin Franz , Mark B. Flegg , S. Jonathan Chapman , Radek Erban

In this work, we explore various relevant aspects of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics regarding Burger's equation. The stability, precision, and efficiency of the algorithm are investigated in terms of different implementations. In…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Chong Ye , Philipe Mota , Jin Li , Kai Lin , Wei-Liang Qian

The Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method is a widely used numerical technique for solving Maxwell's equations, particularly in computational electromagnetics and photonics. It enables accurate modeling of wave propagation in complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yifei He , Måns I. Andersson , Stefano Markidis

The aim of this paper is to propose a novel methodology to deal with micro-structural boundary conditions for the analysis of granular materials. The response of the granular assembly is modelled through the discrete element method (DEM),…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-27 J. Liu , E. Bosco , A. S. J. Suiker

Solving the three-dimensional (3D) Bratu equation is highly challenging due to the presence of multiple and sharp solutions. Research on this equation began in the late 1990s, but there are no satisfactory results to date. To address this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Muhammad Luthfi Shahab , Hadi Susanto , Haralampos Hatzikirou

A multiscale numerical solver called the seamless-domain method (SDM) is used in linear heat conduction analysis of nonperiodic simulated fields. The practical feasibility of the SDM has been verified for use with periodic fields but has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-18 Yoshiro Suzuki

Boundary integral methods are highly suited for problems with complicated geometries, but require special quadrature methods to accurately compute the singular and nearly singular layer potentials that appear in them. This paper presents a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-24 Joar Bagge , Anna-Karin Tornberg

In this paper we describe a computational model for the simulation of fluid-structure interaction problems based on a fictitious domain approach. We summarize the results presented over the last years when our research evolved from the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-29 Daniele Boffi , Lucia Gastaldi

The 1D Schr\"odinger equation closed with the transparent boundary conditions(TBCs) is known as a successful model for describing quantum effects, and is usually considered with a self-consistent Poisson equation in simulating quantum…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-21 Meili Guo , Haiyan Jiang , Tiao Lu , Wenqi Yao

The finite element simulation of dynamic wetting phenomena, requiring the computation of flow in a domain confined by intersecting a liquid-fluid free surface and a liquid-solid interface, with the three-phase contact line moving across the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-02-20 J. E. Sprittles , Y. D. Shikhmurzaev

This paper deals with an isoperimetric optimal control problem for nonlinear control-affine systems with periodic boundary conditions. As it was shown previously, the candidates for optimal controls for this problem can be obtained within…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-08 P. Benner , A. Seidel-Morgenstern , A. Zuyev

Discrete transparent boundary conditions (DTBC) and the Perfectly Matched Layers (PML) method for the realization of open boundary conditions in quantum device simulations are compared, based on the stationary and time-dependent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Jan-Frederik Mennemann , Ansgar Jüngel

Transport and mixing properties of aperiodic flows are crucial to a dynamical analysis of the flow, and often have to be carried out with limited information. Finite-time coherent sets are regions of the flow that minimally mix with the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-02-12 Gary Froyland , Oliver Junge

A finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation of broadband electromagnetic metasurfaces based on direct in- corporation of Generalized Sheet Transition Conditions (GSTCs) inside a conventional Yee-cell region has been proposed, for…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-07-03 Tom. J. Smy , Scott Stewart , Shulabh Gupta

The Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method is a well-known technique for the analysis of quantum devices. It solves a discretized Schrodinger equation in an explicitly iterative process. However, the method requires the spatial grid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-05 Frederick Ira Moxley , Weizhong Dai

An alternative way of visualizing electromagnetic waves in matter and of deriving the Finite Difference Time Domain method (FDTD) for simulating Maxwell's equations for one dimensional systems is presented. The method uses d'Alembert's…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-24 Ross Hyman , Nathaniel Stern , Allen Taflove

We report the first implementation of the frequency-dependent electric dipole-electric dipole polarizability for 1D periodic systems computed with the coupled cluster with single and double excitations (CCSD) method with periodic boundary…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Marco Caricato , Taylor Parsons , Michael J. Frisch , Julia Abdoullaeva

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…

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