Interior Penalty Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method for the Time-Dependent First Order Maxwell's Equations

An interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin method is described with a conformal perfectly matched layer (PML) for solving the two first-order Maxwell's equations in the time domain. Both central and upwind fluxes are studied in this work. In both cases, the proposed method is explicit and conditionally stable. Additionally, a local time-stepping strategy is applied to increase efficiency and reduce the computational time. Finally, numerical examples are presented to validate the method.

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