On energy preserving consistent boundary conditions for the Yee scheme in 2D (Q1759578)

In 1966 \textit{K. S. Yee} [IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag. 14, No. 3, 302--307 (1966; Zbl 1155.78304)] introduced the staggered grids in computational electromagnetics. The electric field components form a primary grid and the magnetic flux density components, normal to the electric field, a secondary grid in the successful Yee scheme, also called FDTD method, with the advantage that the corresponding Maxwellian grid equations are a consistent representation of the analytical equations in the sense that basic properties of the analytical fields (Gauss' flux laws) are maintained independent of the discretization size. A drawback of the method consists in the demand to get a more accurate allowance of oblique boundary conditions. Thus, it is the aim of the authors to improve the treatment of such boundary conditions by the use of a staircase approximation preserving good properties of the original Yee scheme, such as the energy conservation and the optimal CFL-condition. That is done by a modification of the coefficients of the update stencil near the boundary avoiding the change of the structure of the Yee scheme. The result is an extension of the consistent boundary treatment in [\textit{A.-K. Tornberg} and \textit{B. Engquist}, J. Comput. Phys. 227, No. 14, 6922--6943 (2008; Zbl 1154.65354)] with the additional property that now also the time stability (also called asymptotic stability), i. e. the energy conservation, and the CFL-condition are preserved modifying the coefficients in a new way. The findings are proved and validated by numerical examples for two dimensions. The authors announce an extension of the achievements to the three-dimensional case.