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In this paper we consider the numerical solution of the Hamiltonian wave equation in two spatial dimension. We use the Mimetic Finite Difference (MFD) method to approximate the continuous problem combined with a symplectic integration in…

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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

In order to reduce the computational cost of the simulation of electromagnetic responses in geophysical settings that involve highly heterogeneous media, we develop a multiscale finite volume method with oversampling for the quasi-static…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-10-10 Luz Angelica Caudillo Mata , Eldad Haber , Christoph Schwarzbach

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

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

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 propose a novel finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) scheme for the solution of the Maxwell's equations in which linear dispersive effects are present. The method uses high-order accurate approximations in space and time for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-15 Michael J. Jenkinson , Jeffrey W. Banks

We develop a finite volume method for Maxwell's equations in materials whose electromagnetic properties vary in space and time. We investigate both conservative and non-conservative numerical formulations. High-order methods accurately…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-07-25 Damian P. San Roman Alerigi , David I. Ketcheson , Boon S. Ooi

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

We present a non-staggered method for the Maxwell equations in adaptively refined grids. The code is based on finite volume central scheme that preserves in a discrete form both divergence-free property of magnetic field and the Gauss law.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-11-17 Nina Elkina , Hartmut Ruhl

The Gas-Kinetic Scheme (GKS), widely used in computational fluid dynamics for simulating hypersonic and other complicated flow phenomena, is extended in this work to electromagnetic problems by solving Maxwell's equations. In contrast to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Zhigang Pu , Wenpei Long , Kun Xu

We present a higher-order extension of the dual cell method for the time-domain Maxwell equations in three spatial dimensions. The approach builds upon a variational reinterpretation of the Finite Integration Technique on dual meshes and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Lorenzo Codecasa , Bernard Kapidani , Joachim Schöberl , Markus Wess

Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) is an effective algorithm for resolving Maxwell equations directly in time domain. Although FDTD has obtained sufficient development, there still exists some improvement space for it, such as…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Huicheng Guo , Henglei Du , Chengpu Liu

A semi-implicit finite difference time domain (FDTD) numerical Maxwell solver is developed for full electromagnetic Particle-in-Cell (PIC) codes for the simulations of plasma-based acceleration. The solver projects the volumetric Yee…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Alexander Pukhov

The finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is a well established method for solving the time evolution of Maxwell's equations. Unfortunately the scheme introduces numerical dispersion and therefore phase and group velocities which…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-02-05 Alexander Blinne , David Schinkel , Stephan Kuschel , Nina Elkina , Sergey Rykovanov , Matt Zepf

We survey finite element methods for approximating the time harmonic Maxwell equations. We concentrate on comparing error estimates for problems with spatially varying coefficients. For the conforming edge finite element methods, such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-23 Peter Monk , Yangwen Zhang

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

Maxwell's equations, a system of linear partial differential equations (PDEs), describe the behavior of electric and magnetic fields in time and space and are essential for many important electromagnetic applications. Although numerical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-19 Qile Jiang , Marc Salvadori , Dale Ota , Vijaya Shankar , Khemraj Shukla

We present numerical results concerning the solution of the time-harmonic Maxwell's equations discretized by discontinuous Galerkin methods. In particular, a numerical study of the convergence, which compares different strategies proposed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Victorita Dolean , Hugo Fol , Stephane Lanteri , Ronan Perrussel

In this paper, we present an accurate numerical method for the time-harmonic Maxwell's equations for bi-periodic multilayered media with quasi-periodic incident waves using the Method of Fundamental Solutions in conjunction with a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Jared Weed , Bowei Wu , Jingfang Huang , Min Hyung Cho
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