A fixed grid method for capturing the motion of self-intersecting wavefronts and related PDEs

DOI10.1006/JCPH.2000.6480zbMath0963.65097OpenAlexW2072084230MaRDI QIDQ1587859

Barry Merriman, Steven J. Ruuth, Stanley J. Osher

Publication date: 19 June 2001

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/jcph.2000.6480

zbMATH Keywords

reflectionrefractionwavefrontcurvature motionray tracinggeometric opticsswallowtaildynamic surface extension methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Finite difference methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M20) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Geometric optics (78A05)

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