High-order Runge-Kutta discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for 2-D resonator problem

The Runge-Kutta discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (RK-DGFEM) is introduced to solve the classical resonator problem in the time domain. DGFEM uses unstructured grid discretization in the space domain and it is explicit in the time domain. Consequently it is a best mixture of FEM and finite volume method (FVM). RK-DGFEM can obtain local high-order accuracy by using high-order polynomial basis. Numerical experiments of transverse magnetic (TM) wave propagation in a 2-D resonator are performed. A high-order Lagrange polynomial basis is adopted. Numerical results agree well with analytical solution. And different order Lagrange interpolation polynomial basis impacts on simulation result accuracy are discussed. Computational results indicate that the accuracy is evidently improved when the order of interpolation basis is increased. Finally, L2 errors of different order polynomial basis in RK-DGFEM are presented. Computational results show that L2 error declines exponentially as the order of basis increases.