A Dispersion Minimized Mimetic Method for Cold Plasma
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Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Finite element, Galerkin and related methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M10) Finite difference methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M20)
Abstract: In this paper we consider the lowest edge-based mimetic finite difference (MFD) discretization in space for Maxwell's equations in cold plasma on rectangular meshes. The method uses a generalized form of mass lumping that, on one hand, eliminates a need for linear solves at every iteration while, on the other hand, retains a set of free parameters of the MFD discretization. We perform an optimization procedure, called m-adaptation, that identified a set of free parameters that lead to the smallest numerical dispersion. The choice of the time stepping proved to be critical for successful optimization. Using exponential time differencing we were able to reduce the numerical dispersion error from second to fourth order of accuracy in mesh size. It was not possible to achieve this order of magnitude reduction in numerical dispersion error using the standard leapfrog time stepping. Numerical simulations independently verify our theoretical findings.
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