IEICE Trans - Concept and Evaluation of a 2-D FDTD Formulation Based on Expanded Wave Equation Approach

Concept and Evaluation of a 2-D FDTD Formulation Based on Expanded Wave Equation Approach

Koichi ICHIGE
Hiroyuki ARAI

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E84-C No.7 pp.981-993
Publication Date: 2001/07/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Electromagnetic Theory
Keyword:
computational electromagnetics, FDTD formulation, wave equation, Maxwell's equations,

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Summary:
This paper presents a novel concept of a Two-Dimensional (2-D) Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) formulation for the numerical analysis of electromagnetic fields. FDTD method proposed by Yee is widely used for such analysis, although it has an inherent problem that there exist half-cell-length and half-time-step distances between electric and magnetic field components. To dissolve such distances, we begin with the finite-difference approximation of the wave equation, not Maxwell's equations. Employing several approximation techniques, we develop a novel algorithm which can condense all field components to equidistant discrete nodes. The proposed algorithm is evaluated in comparison with several conventional algorithms by computer simulations.