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A new formalism for time-dependent electromagnetic scattering from a bounded obstacle

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In this paper a time-dependent three-dimensional electromagnetic scattering problem is considered. Let R 3 be the three-dimensional real Euclidean space filled with a medium of electric permittivity ε, magnetic permeability μ and zero electric conductivity. The quantities ε, μ are positive constants and there are no free charges in the space and the free current is taken to be zero. Let Ω⊂R 3 be a bounded simply connected obstacle with a locally Lipschitz boundary ∂Ω, that is assumed to have a nonnegative constant boundary electromagnetic impedance. The limit cases of perfectly conducting and perfectly insulating obstacles are studied. An incoming electromagnetic wave packet that hits Ω is considered, and a method that solves the Maxwell equations to compute the corresponding electromagnetic field scattered by Ω as a superposition of time harmonic electromagnetic waves is proposed. These time-harmonic electromagnetic waves are the solutions of exterior boundary-value problems for the vector Helmholtz equation with the divergence-free condition and they are computed with an `operator expansion' method that generalizes the method presented by L. Fatone et al.[J. Math. Phys. 40 (1999) 4859–4887]. The method proposed here is computationally very efficient. In fact, it is highly parallelizable with respect to time and space variables. Several numerical experiments obtained with a parallel implementation of the method are shown. The numerical results obtained are discussed from a numerical and a physical point of view. The quantitative character of the numerical experiments shown is established. The website: http://www.econ.unian.it/recchioni/w4/ contains some animations relative to the numerical experiments.

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  1. Istituto di Teoria delle Decisioni e Finanza Innovativa (DE.F.IN.), Università di Ancona, Piazza Martelli 8, 60121, Ancona, Italy

    Maria Cristina Recchioni

  2. Dipartimento di Matematica ``G. Castelnuovo'', Università di Roma ``La Sapienza'', Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy

    Francesco Zirilli

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Recchioni, M.C., Zirilli, F. A new formalism for time-dependent electromagnetic scattering from a bounded obstacle. Journal of Engineering Mathematics 47, 17–43 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025570924371

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