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Metamaterial homogenization theories usually start with crude approximations that are valid in certain limits in zero order, such as small frequencies, wave vectors and material fill fractions. In some cases they remain surprisingly robust…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-25 Antonio Günzler , Cedric Schumacher , Matthias Saba

We introduce a new numerical method for the time-dependent Maxwell equations on unstructured meshes in two space dimensions. This relies on the introduction of a new mesh, which is the barycentric-dual cellular complex of the starting…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-02-13 Bernard Kapidani , Lorenzo Codecasa , Joachim Schöberl

We consider the numerical solution of large scale time-harmonic Maxwell equations. To this day, this problem remains difficult, in particular because the equations are neither Hermitian nor semi-definite. Our approach is to compare…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Elise Fressart , Sébastien Dubois , Loïc Gouarin , Marc Massot , Michel Nowak , Nicole Spillane

We investigate a range of techniques for the acceleration of Calder\'on (operator) preconditioning in the context of boundary integral equation methods for electromagnetic transmission problems. Our objective is to mitigate as far as…

We report in this paper a fast and accurate algorithm for computing the exact spherical nonreflecting boundary condition (NRBC) for time-dependent Maxwell's equations. It is essentially based on a new formulation of the NRBC, which allows…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-02-05 Xiaodan Zhao , Li-Lian Wang

In this paper, a novel multigrid method based on Newton iteration is proposed to solve nonlinear eigenvalue problems. Instead of handling the eigenvalue $\lambda$ and eigenfunction $u$ separately, we treat the eigenpair $(\lambda, u)$ as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Fei Xu , Manting Xie , Meiling Yue

In this work, we consider the time-harmonic Maxwell's equations and their numerical solution with a domain decomposition method. As an innovative feature, we propose a feedforward neural network-enhanced approximation of the interface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-07 T. Knoke , S. Kinnewig , S. Beuchler , A. Demircan , U. Morgner , T. Wick

We present an absorbing boundary condition for electromagnetic frequency domain simulations of photonic crystals and metamaterials. This boundary condition can simultaneously absorb multiple Bloch-Floquet eigenmodes of a periodic crystal,…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-16 Chris Fietz

We study, for times of order 1/h, solutions of Maxwell's equations in an O(h^2) modulation of an h-periodic medium. The solutions are of slowly varying amplitude type built on Bloch plane waves with wavelength of order h. We construct…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Grégoire Allaire , Mariapia Palombaro , Jeffrey Rauch

We review our recent work leading to steady-state solutions of the semiclassical (Maxwell-Bloch) equations of a laser. These are coupled non-linear partial differential equations in space and time which have previously been solved either by…

We consider a Schr\"odinger operator H with a non-vanishing radial magnetic field B=dA and Dirichlet boundary conditions on the unit disk. We assume growth conditions on B near the boundary which guarantee in particular the compactness of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-12 Francoise Truc

In this paper, we design a new kind of high order inverse Lax-Wendroff (ILW) boundary treatment for solving hyperbolic conservation laws with finite difference method on a Cartesian mesh. This new ILW method decomposes the construction of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-16 Shihao Liu , Tingting Li , Ziqiang Cheng , Yan Jiang , Chi-Wang Shu , Mengping Zhang

In this paper we consider the free-form optimization of eigenvalues in electromagnetic systems by means of shape-variations with respect to small deformations. The objective is to optimize a particular eigenvalue to a target value. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Christine Herter , Sebastian Schöps , Winnifried Wollner

We consider two inverse boundary value problems for the time-harmonic Maxwell equations in an infinite slab. Assuming that tangential boundary data for the electric and magnetic fields at a fixed frequency is available either on subsets of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-25 Monika Pichler

An algorithm named EigenWave is described to compute eigenvalues and eigenvectors of elliptic boundary value problems. The algorithm, based on the recently developed WaveHoltz scheme, solves a related time-dependent wave equation as part of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-25 Daniel Appelo , Jeffrey W. Banks , William D. Henshaw , Ngan Le , Donald W. Schwendeman

A multigrid method is proposed for solving nonlinear eigenvalue problems by the finite element method. With this new scheme, solving nonlinear eigenvalue problem is decomposed to a series of solutions of linear boundary value problems on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-01-09 Hehu Xie

A multigrid method is proposed in this paper to solve eigenvalue problems by the finite element method based on the shifted-inverse power iteration technique. With this scheme, solving eigenvalue problem is transformed to a series of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-28 Hongtao Chen , Yunhui He , Yu Li , Hehu Xie

We consider a quasilinear nonhomogeneous, anisotropic Maxwell system in a bounded smooth domain of $\mathbb{R}^{3}$ with a strictly positive conductivity subject to the boundary conditions of a perfect conductor. Under appropriate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-31 Irena Lasiecka , Michael Pokojovy , Roland Schnaubelt

In this paper, based on a domain decomposition (DD) method, we shall propose an efficient two-level preconditioned Helmholtz-Jacobi-Davidson (PHJD) method for solving the algebraic eigenvalue problem resulting from the edge element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Qigang Liang , Xuejun Xu

In this paper we describe an application of the finite difference method to obtain the transverse magnetic photonic band gap diagram of a photonic crystal. The strategy of this method is to formulate the Maxwell equations in finite…

Optics · Physics 2011-09-05 R. A. Gutierrez-Arenas , D. Mendoza