Numerical approximation of asymptotically disappearing solutions of Maxwell's equations

DOI10.1137/120879385MaRDI QIDQ2870697zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. H. Adler, Vesselin Petkov, Ludmil T. Zikatanov

Publication date 21 January 2014

Published in SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.7046

zbMATH Keywords

numerical resultsboundary value problemCrank-Nicolson schemefinite element methodmagnetic fieldMaxwell's equationsdissipative boundary conditionselectric fieldasymptotically disappearing solutionssemi-discrete system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M20) Maxwell equations (35Q61) Finite difference methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N06) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Inverse problems (including inverse scattering) in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A46) Finite element, Galerkin and related methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M10)

Abstract: This work is on the numerical approximation of incoming solutions to Maxwell's equations with dissipative boundary conditions whose energy decays exponentially with time. Such solutions are called asymptotically disappearing (ADS) and they play an importarnt role in inverse back-scatering problems. The existence of ADS is a difficult mathematical problem. For the exterior of a sphere, such solutions have been constructed analytically by Colombini, Petkov and Rauch [7] by specifying appropriate initial conditions. However, for general domains of practical interest (such as Lipschitz polyhedra), the existence of such solutions is not evident. This paper considers a finite-element approximation of Maxwell's equations in the exterior of a polyhedron, whose boundary approximates the sphere. Standard Nedelec-Raviart-Thomas elements are used with a Crank-Nicholson scheme to approximate the electric and magnetic fields. Discrete initial conditions interpolating the ones chosen in [7] are modified so that they are (weakly) divergence-free. We prove that with such initial conditions, the approximation to the electric field is weakly divergence-free for all time. Finally, we show numerically that the finite-element approximations of the ADS also decay exponentially with time when the mesh size and the time step become small.

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