A spatial high-order hexahedral discontinuous Galerkin method to solve Maxwell's equations in time domain

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 217, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 340-363

  Cohen, G ^a   Ferrieres, X ^b   Pernet, S ^b  

^a INRIA ROCQUENCOURT   (France)

^b Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales   (France)

Author keywords

Conservative spatial centered scheme; Discontinuous Galerkin methods; Dispersive error; Local time step; Maxwell's equations in time domain; Numerical methods; Stability analysis

Indexed keywords

GALERKIN METHODS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CENTERED SCHEMES; CONSERVATIVE SPATIAL CENTERED SCHEME; DISCONTINOUS GALERKIN METHODS; DISPERSIVE ERROR; HIGH-ORDER; HIGHER-ORDER; LOCAL TIME STEPS; MAXWELL EQUATION IN TIME DOMAIN; STABILITY ANALYZE; TIME DOMAIN;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 33748559096     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.01.004     Document Type: Article

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