Symplectic and multisymplectic numerical methods for Maxwell's equations

Authors:
Y. Sun;P. S. P. Tse
Affiliations:
LSEC, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 2719, 100190 Beijing, China;LSEC, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 2719, 100190 Beijing, China
Venue:
Journal of Computational Physics
Year:
2011

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Abstract

In this paper, we compare the behaviour of one symplectic and three multisymplectic methods for Maxwell's equations in a simple medium. This is a system of PDEs with symplectic and multisymplectic structures. We give a theoretical discussion of how some numerical methods preserve the discrete versions of the local and global conservation laws and verify this behaviour in numerical experiments. We also show that these numerical methods preserve the divergence. Furthermore, we extend the discussion on dispersion for (multi)symplectic methods applied to PDEs with one spatial dimension, to include anisotropy when applying (multi)symplectic methods to Maxwell's equations in two spatial dimensions. Lastly, we demonstrate how varying the Courant-Friedrichs-Lewy (CFL) number can cause the (multi)symplectic methods in our comparison to behave differently, which can be explained by the study of backward error analysis for PDEs.