High-order FDTD schemes for Maxwell's interface problems with discontinuous coefficients and complex interfaces based on the correction function method

DOI10.1007/S10915-022-01797-9zbMATH Open1490.35476OpenAlexW3120080757MaRDI QIDQ2113673FDOQ2113673

Authors Yann-Meing Law, Jean-Christophe Nave 

Publication date 14 March 2022

Published in Journal of Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.05417

zbMATH Keywords

high orderMaxwell's equationsinterface conditionsfinite-difference time-domaincorrection function method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Finite difference methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M20) Maxwell equations (35Q61) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Finite difference methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N06) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25)

Abstract: We propose high-order FDTD schemes based on the Correction Function Method (CFM) for Maxwell's interface problems with discontinuous coefficients and complex interfaces. The key idea of the CFM is to model the correction function near an interface to retain the order of a finite difference approximation. For this, we solve a system of PDEs based on the original problem by minimizing an energy functional. The CFM is applied to the standard Yee scheme and a fourth-order FDTD scheme. The proposed CFM-FDTD schemes are verified in 2-D using the transverse magnetic mode (TM${}_z$). Numerical examples include scattering of magnetic and non-magnetic dielectric cylinders, and problems with manufactured solutions using various complex interfaces and discontinuous piecewise varying coefficients. Long-time simulations are also performed to provide numerical evidences of the stability of the proposed numerical approach. The proposed CFM-FDTD schemes achieve up to fourth-order convergence in $L^2$-norm and provide approximations devoid of spurious oscillations.

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