An adaptive local discrete convolution method for the numerical solution of Maxwell's equations

DOI10.2140/CAMCOS.2019.14.105MaRDI QIDQ2329636zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Boris Lo, Phillip Colella

Publication date 18 October 2019

Published in Communications in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.10972, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/35c9f1cn

zbMATH Keywords

adaptive mesh refinementelectromagneticsGreen's functionpropagator method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Maxwell equations (35Q61) Multigrid methods; domain decomposition for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M55) Fundamental solutions, Green's function methods, etc. for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M80) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to optics and electromagnetic theory (78-04) Basic methods for problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M99)

Abstract: We present a numerical method for solving the free-space Maxwell's equations in three dimensions using compact convolution kernels on a rectangular grid. We first rewrite Maxwell's Equations as a system of wave equations with auxiliary variables and discretize its solution from the method of spherical means. The algorithm has been extended to be used on a locally-refined nested hierarchy of rectangular grids.

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