Convergence of an ADI splitting for Maxwell's equations (Q2260883)

The authors investigate the convergence of an alternating direction implicit method for Maxwell's equations on a cuboid going back to \textit{F. H. Zheng, Z. Z. Chen} and \textit{J. Z. Zhang} [``Toward the development of a three-dimensional unconditionally stable finite-difference time-domain method'', IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech. 48, 1550--1558 (2000; \url{doi:10.1109/22.869007})]. The main result of the paper is the proof of second-order convergence in time independent on the spatial discretization. The authors use an explicit formula of the global error for the semi-discretization derived in a framework of operator semigroup theory and regularity results of the Cauchy problem. So the convergence analysis respects the unboundedness of the involved differential operators. Numerical experiments confirm the second-order convergence in time independently on the mesh size and the impact of the smoothness of coefficients on the accuracy.