A space-time domain decomposition method for high-fidelity electromagnetic simulation

This paper addresses a growing need for space-time parallel simulation capability in electromagnetics (EM) applications. Currently time-dependent EM solvers are typically parallel only in space. The sequential-in-time nature of these solvers can achieve good parallel scaling when the number of spatial mesh points per core is large. But the parallel efficiency quickly deteriorates and even saturates if spatial parallelism has been fully exploited. We proposed a new time domain EM solver to harvest parallelism in both spatial and temporal dimension. The spatial parallelism is achieved by discontinuous Galerkin formulation, and the temporal parallelism is enabled by Krylov subspace method based exponential integrator. The improved parallel performance over space-only parallel time-domain solvers is validated by numerical examples.