Divergence preservation in the ADI algorithms for electromagnetics

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2009.06.025MaRDI QIDQ732981zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors David N. Smithe, John R. Cary, J. Carlsson

Publication date 15 October 2009

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.1758

zbMATH Keywords

ADI (alternating direction implicit)curldivergenceelectromagneticexact charge conservationFDTD (finite-difference time domain)PIC (particle-in-cell)self-consistentsimulationVORPAL

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite difference methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M20)

Abstract: This paper contains a study of ADI methods in the presence of charge and current sources. It is shown that there are four significantly distinct cases, with four more related by duality. Of those, only one preserves divergence and, thus, is guaranteed to be stable in the presence of moving charged particles. Computational verification of this property is accomplished by implementation in existing 3D-EMPIC simulation software. Of the other three cases, two are verified unstable, as expected, and one remains stable, despite the lack of divergence preservation. This other stable algorithm is shown to be related to the divergence preserving case by a similarity transformation, effectively providing the complement of the divergence preserving field in the finite-difference energy quantity.

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• VORPAL

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