Unified framework for numerical methods to solve the time-dependent Maxwell equations

DOI10.1016/S0010-4655(03)00414-4zbMATH Open1196.82008arXivphysics/0210035OpenAlexW2127301579WikidataQ57897268 ScholiaQ57897268MaRDI QIDQ709451FDOQ709451

Hans De Raedt, Marc Thilo Figge, K. Michielsen, J. S. Kole

Publication date: 18 October 2010

Published in: Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We review some recent developments in numerical algorithms to solve the time-dependent Maxwell equations for systems with spatially varying permittivity and permeability. We show that the Suzuki product-formula approach can be used to construct a family of unconditionally stable algorithms, the conventional Yee algorithm, and two new variants of the Yee algorithm that do not require the use of the staggered-in-time grid. We also consider a one-step algorithm, based on the Chebyshev polynomial expansion, and compare the computational efficiency of the one-step, the Yee-type, the alternating-direction-implicit, and the unconditionally stable algorithms. For applications where the long-time behavior is of main interest, we find that the one-step algorithm may be orders of magnitude more efficient than present multiple time-step, finite-difference time-domain algorithms.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0210035

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to statistical mechanics (82-04)

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