A scheme-fitted splitting method for source terms to solve inhomogeneous Maxwell equations in time domain

In this article, we construct a family of solutions to nonhomogeneous Maxwell equations whose numerical computation exhibits unphysical behavior for a number of tested schemes (FDTD, FVTD, and several DGTD schemes), the current density source term being discretized like the electrical field. We then propose a new, scheme-fitted method to account for this source term, resulting in the correction of the forementioned numerical results for all tested schemes. Doing so provides a new insight on test cases used in the framework of divergence cleaning techniques. The proposed method is based on Helmholtz Theorem. A general theoretical result, dictated from considerations at a continuous level, is given as a hint to explain the drastic and indiscriminate improvement numerically observed.

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Source https://hal.science/hal-00698548
Author Fornet, Bruno
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Last Updated May 17, 2026, 06:53 (UTC)
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creator Fornet, Bruno
date 2012-05-24T00:00:00
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