Abstract
Liouville’s equation describes light propagation through an optical system. It governs the evolution of an energy distribution on phase space. This distribution is discontinuous across optical interfaces. The discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method is employed to solve Liouville’s equation. At optical interfaces the laws of optics describe non-local boundary conditions for the energy distribution, which leads to a non-trivial coupling of elements at optical interfaces. A method has been developed to deal with these non-local boundary conditions in a way that ensures that the discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method conserves energy. A numerical experiment validates that the method obeys energy conservation. A comparison to the more traditional quasi-Monte Carlo ray tracing is made, showing significant speed-ups in favour of the discontinuous Galerkin spectral element method.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Spectral and High Order Methods for Partial Differential Equations ICOSAHOM 2020+1 |
Subtitle of host publication | Selected Papers from the ICOSAHOM Conference, Vienna, Austria, July 12-16, 2021 |
Editors | Jens M. Melenk, Ilaria Perugia, Joachim Schöberl, Christoph Schwab |
Place of Publication | Cham |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 323-335 |
Number of pages | 13 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-3-031-20432-6 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-3-031-20431-9, 978-3-031-20434-0 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 29 Nov 2022 |
Event | 13th International Conference on Spectral and High Order Methods, ICOSAHOM 2021 - Vienna, Austria Duration: 12 Jul 2021 → 16 Jul 2021 |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering (LNCSE) |
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Volume | 137 |
ISSN (Print) | 1439-7358 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 2197-7100 |
Conference
Conference | 13th International Conference on Spectral and High Order Methods, ICOSAHOM 2021 |
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Country/Territory | Austria |
City | Vienna |
Period | 12/07/21 → 16/07/21 |
Funding
This work is part of the research programme NWO-TTW Perspectief with project number P15-36, which is (partly) financed by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).