A brick-tetrahedron finite-element interface with stable hybrid explicit-implicit time-stepping for Maxwell's equations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 220, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 383-393

  Degerfeldt, D ^a   Rylander, T ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Discontinuous Galerkin; Explicit implicit time stepping; Finite difference time domain; Finite element methods; Hybrid methods; Maxwell's equations; Nitsche's method; Stability analysis

Indexed keywords

BRICK; COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GALERKIN METHODS; GEOMETRY; MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN; EXPLICIT-IMPLICIT TIME-STEPPING; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; HYBRID EXPLICIT-IMPLICIT TIME STEPPING; HYBRID METHOD; NITSCHE'S METHODS; STABILITY ANALYZE; TETRAHEDRA; TETRAHEDRON FINITE ELEMENTS; TIME-STEPPING;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 33751029356     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.05.016     Document Type: Article

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