On the Huygens absorbing boundary conditions for electromagnetics

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2007.04.008MaRDI QIDQ2456692zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jean-Pierre Bérenger

Publication date 19 October 2007

Published in Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2007.04.008

zbMATH Keywords

absorbing boundary conditionsfinite difference finite time domain method (FDTD)Huygens conditionsperfectly matched layer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Finite difference methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M20)

Review text

For numerical treatment of Maxwell equations, the computational domain has to be truncated by electric or magnetic walls or by absorbing boundary conditions (ABC), simulating the open space. A widely used and powerful formulation of ABCs is the perfectly matched layer (PML), is introduced in [\textit{J.-P. Bérenger}, ``A perfectly matched layer for the absorption of electromagnetic waves, J. Comput. Phys. 114, No. 2, 185--200 (1994; Zbl 0814.65129)]. In the present paper the author analyses novel ABCs recently appeared in the literature, the multiple absorbing boundary condition (MAS) [\textit{I. W. Sudiarta}, ``An absorbing boundary condition for FDTD truncation using multiple absorbing surfaces, IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag. 51, 3268--3275 (2003)] and the re-radiating boundary condition (rRBC) [\textit{R. E. Diaz} and \textit{I. Scherbatko}, ``A simple stackable re-radiating boundary condition (rRBC) for FDTD, IEEE Antennas Propag. Mag. 46, No. 1, 124--130 (2004) and ``A new multistack radiation boundary condition for FDTD based on self-teleportation of fields, J. Comput. Phys. 203, No. 1, 176--190 (2005; Zbl 1059.78036)], introducing so-called Huygens ABCs (HABCs) with the property that the MAS and rRBC are special cases of the HABCs. Deriving theoretical properties in the continuous as well as in the discrete space it is shown the MAS and rRBC absorb traveling waves but, they reflect evanescent waves. Traveling and evanescent waves are presented in many problems of numerical electromagnetics. Thus, the HABCs are of interest because they can be combined in a simple way with other ABCs. Two corresponding combinations of operators designed to absorb traveling waves as well as evanescent waves are treated, especially in the case when the HABC is placed in front of the well-known PML ABC. The results are illustrated by applying the finite difference finite time domain (FDTD) method to particular realistic problems of computational electromagnetics.

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