Choice of the perfectly matched layer boundary condition for frequency-domain Maxwell's equations solvers

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 231, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3406-3431

  Shin, Wonseok ^a   Fan, Shanhui ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Condition number; Finite difference frequency domain method; Finite element method; Iterative methods; Maxwell's equations; Perfectly matched layer; Preconditioner

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NUMBER THEORY; NUMERICAL METHODS;

CONDITION NUMBERS; EQUATION SOLVERS; FAST CONVERGENCE SPEED; FINITE-DIFFERENCE FREQUENCY-DOMAIN METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; FREQUENCY-DOMAIN MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS; LAYER BOUNDARIES; PERFECTLY MATCHED LAYER; PERFORMANCE; PRECONDITIONERS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 84857236836     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2012.01.013     Document Type: Article

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