A fourth-order accurate staggered FD-TD scheme for Maxwell equations

Xie, Zhongqiang; Zhang, B.; Chan, Chao-Wen

doi:10.1109/aps.2000.874501

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“…The underlying idea in these works is based on the substitution of higher temporal derivatives by spatial derivatives, leading to fourth-order Runge-Kutta (RK) or leap-frog (LF) schemes. Recent works mix higher order spatial and temporal differencing schemes to obtain a full fourth-order scheme [3]. Some of these papers focus on stability, dispersion and convergence, but the given analyses are limited to the particular schemes.…”

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Higher order explicit time integration schemes for Maxwell's equations

Spachmann

Schuhmann

Weiland

2002

Int J Numerical Modelling

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SUMMARYThe finite integration technique (FIT) is an efficient and universal method for solving a wide range of problems in computational electrodynamics. The conventional formulation in time-domain (FITD) has a second-order accuracy with respect to spatial and temporal discretization and is computationally equivalent with the well-known finite difference time-domain (FDTD) scheme. The dispersive character of the second-order spatial operators and temporal integration schemes limits the problem size to electrically small structures. In contrast higher-order approaches result not only in low-dispersive schemes with modified stability conditions but also higher computational costs. In this paper, a general framework of explicit Runge-Kutta and leap-frog integrators of arbitrary orders N is derived. The powerful root-locus method derived from general system theory forms the basis of the theoretical mainframe for analysing convergence, stability and dispersion characteristics of the proposed integrators. As it is clearly stated, the second-and fourth-order leap-frog scheme are highly preferable in comparison to any other higher order Runge-Kutta or leap-frog scheme concerning stability, efficiency and energy conservation.

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confidence: 99%