A robust GPU-accelerated kernel compensation solver with novel discretization for photonic crystals in anisotropic media

This paper develops a robust solver for the Maxwell eigenproblem in 3D photonic crystals with anisotropic media. The solver employs the kernel compensation technique under the framework of Yee's scheme to eliminate null space and enable matrix-free, GPU-accelerated operations via 3D discrete Fourier transform. Furthermore, we propose a novel discretization for permittivity tensor containing off-diagonal entries and prove that the resulting matrix is Hermitian positive definite, which ensures the correctness of the kernel compensation technique. Numerical experiments on several benchmark examples are demonstrated to validate the robustness and accuracy of our scheme.

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Journal
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
Published
2026-08-19
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2026.119308
Primary Topic
Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis
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A robust GPU-accelerated kernel compensation solver with novel discretization for photonic crystals in anisotropic media

Hehu Xie
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis
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A robust GPU-accelerated kernel compensation solver with novel discretization for photonic crystals in anisotropic media

Hehu Xie
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Abstract

This paper develops a robust solver for the Maxwell eigenproblem in 3D photonic crystals with anisotropic media. The solver employs the kernel compensation technique under the framework of Yee's scheme to eliminate null space and enable matrix-free, GPU-accelerated operations via 3D discrete Fourier transform. Furthermore, we propose a novel discretization for permittivity tensor containing off-diagonal entries and prove that the resulting matrix is Hermitian positive definite, which ensures the correctness of the kernel compensation technique. Numerical experiments on several benchmark examples are demonstrated to validate the robustness and accuracy of our scheme.

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and EngineeringVol. 462
National Natural Science Foundation of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Key Defense Laboratory of Computational Physics, National Key Research and Development Program of China, Science Challenge Project, National Key Research and Development Program of China Stem Cell and Translational Research, National Center for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Openalex Percentile: Top 97%
Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis
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