Temporal convergence of a locally implicit discontinuous Galerkin method for Maxwell's equations (Q2838583)

The author studies the temporal convergence of a locally implicit discontinuous Galerkin time-domain (DGTD) method for Maxwell's equations. Specifically, the main concern of the author in this study is to examine whether the method retains its second-order ordinary differential equation (ODE) convergence under stable simultaneous space-time grid refinement towards the true partial differential equation (PDE) solution. The author claims that only first-order convergence is guaranteed in the general cases since the component splitting, which can introduce order reduction, is not known \textit{a priori}.