High-Order Leap-Frog Based Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Time-Domain Maxwell Equations on Non-Conforming Simplicial Meshes

A high-order leap-frog based non-dissipative discontinuous Galerkin timedomain method for solving Maxwell’s equations is introduced and analyzed. The proposed method combines a centered approximation for the evaluation of fluxes at the interface between neighboring elements, with a N th-order leap-frog time scheme. Moreover, the interpolation degree is defined at the element level and the mesh is refined locally in a non-conforming way resulting in arbitrary level hanging nodes. The method is proved to be stable under some CFL-like condition on the time step. The convergence of the semi-discrete approximation to Maxwell’s equations is established rigorously and bounds on the global divergence error are provided. Numerical experiments with high-order elements show the potential of the method. AMS subject classifications: 65M12, 65M50, 65M60, 74S10, 78A40.