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This note is intended as a brief introduction to the theory and practice of perfectly matched layer (PML) absorbing boundaries for wave equations, originally developed for MIT courses 18.369 and 18.336. It focuses on the complex…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Steven G. Johnson

We consider time-harmonic electromagnetic wave equations in composites of a dispersive material surrounded by a classical material. In certain frequency ranges this leads to sign-changing permittivity and/or permeability. Previously meshing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Martin Halla

The propagation of electromagnetic waves through disordered layered system is considered in the paradigm of Maxwell's equations homogenization. In spite of the impossibility to describe the system in terms of effective dielectric…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Alexander M. Merzlikin , Roman S. Puzko

This article presents a mathematical framework for solving Maxwell's equations in cylindrical and spherical geometries with continuous angular indices. We extend beyond standard discrete harmonic decomposition to a continuous spectral…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-06 Mustafa Bakr

We present an easy-to-implement numerical method for analyzing electromagnetic wave propagation in dielectric rings. Our approach employs a finite-difference-based solver in cylindrical coordinates, solving a mixed electric-magnetic field…

We develop a modal method that solves Maxwell's equations in the presence of the linearized hydrodynamic correction. Using this approach, it is now possible to calculate the full diffraction for structures with period of the order of the…

Optics · Physics 2013-11-15 Avner Yanai , N. Asger Mortensen , Uriel Levy

The scattering of quasiperiodic waves for a two-dimensional Helmholtz equation with a constant refractive index perturbed by a function which is periodic in one direction and of finite support in the other is considered. The scattering…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 P. Zhevandrov , A. Merzon , M. I. Romero Rodríguez , J. E. de la Paz Méndez

We consider a class of generally non-self-adjoint eigenvalue problems which are nonlinear in the solution as well as in the eigenvalue parameter ("doubly" nonlinear). We prove a bifurcation result from simple isolated eigenvalues of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Tomáš Dohnal , Giulio Romani

Boundary integral equations are an efficient and accurate tool for the numerical solution of elliptic boundary value problems. The solution is expressed as a layer potential; however, the error in its evaluation grows large near the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-22 Alex H. Barnett

In this paper, a full (nested) multigrid scheme is proposed to solve eigenvalue problems. The idea here is to use the multilevel correction method to transform the solution of eigenvalue problem to a series of solutions of the corresponding…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Hehu Xie

In this paper, we present the stability analysis of the perfectly matched layer (PML) in two-space dimensional layered elastic media. Using normal mode analysis we prove that all interface wave modes present at a planar interface of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Kenneth Duru , Balaje Kalyanaraman , Siyang Wang

In the frame of volume integral equation methods, we introduce an alternative representation of the electromagnetic field scattered by a homogeneous object of arbitrary shape at a given frequency, in terms of a set of modes independent of…

We consider the static Maxwell system with an axially symmetric dielectric permittivity and construct complete systems of its solutions which can be used for analytic and numerical solution of corresponding boundary value problems.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-07-09 Kira V. Khmelnytskaya , Vladislav V. Kravchenko , Hector Oviedo

Wave propagation and acoustic scattering problems require vast computational resources to be solved accurately at high frequencies. Asymptotic methods can make this cost potentially frequency independent by explicitly extracting the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Daan Huybrechs , Peter Opsomer

The general method to obtain solutions of the Maxwellian equations from scalar representatives is developed and applied to the diffraction of electromagnetic waves. Kirchhoff's integral is modified to provide explicit expressions for these…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-27 Ulrich Brosa

The initial-boundary value problem (IBVP) for the Maxwell-Bloch equations with an arbitrary inhomogeneous broadening and periodic boundary condition is studied. This IBVP describes the propagation of an electromagnetic wave generated by…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Maria Filipkovska

Efficient numerical methods are required for the design of optimised devices. In magnonics, the primary computational tool is micromagnetic simulations, which solve the Landau-Lifshitz equation discretised in time and space. However, their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Wojciech Śmigaj , Krzysztof Sobucki , Paweł Gruszecki , Maciej Krawczyk

Metasurfaces, consisting of large arrays of interacting subwavelength scatterers, pose significant challenges for general-purpose computational methods due to their large electric dimensions and multiscale nature. This paper introduces an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Emanuele Corsaro , Giovanni Miano , Antonello Tamburrino , Salvatore Ventre , Carlo Forestiere

From a three-dimensional boundary value problem for the time harmonic classical Maxwell equations, we derive the dispersion relation for a surface wave, the edge plasmon-polariton (EP), that is localized near and propagates along the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-18 Dionisios Margetis

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