The ADI-FDTD Method for High Accuracy Electrophysics Applications

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dc.contributor.advisorRamahi, Omar Men_US
dc.contributor.authorHaeri Kermani, Mohammaden_US
dc.contributor.departmentElectrical Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2007-02-01T20:22:02Z
dc.date.available2007-02-01T20:22:02Z
dc.date.issued2006-11-24en_US
dc.description.abstractThe Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) is a dependable method to simulate a wide range of problems from acoustics, to electromagnetics, and to photonics, amongst others. The execution time of an FDTD simulation is inversely proportional to the time-step size. Since the FDTD method is explicit, its time-step size is limited by the well-known Courant-Friedrich-Levy (CFL) stability limit. The CFL stability limit can render the simulation inefficient for very fine structures. The Alternating Direction Implicit FDTD (ADI-FDTD) method has been introduced as an unconditionally stable implicit method. Numerous works have shown that the ADI-FDTD method is stable even when the CFL stability limit is exceeded. Therefore, the ADI-FDTD method can be considered an efficient method for special classes of problems with very fine structures or high gradient fields. Whenever the ADI-FDTD method is used to simulate open-region radiation or scattering problems, the implementation of a mesh-truncation scheme or absorbing boundary condition becomes an integral part of the simulation. These truncation techniques represent, in essence, differential operators that are discretized using a distinct differencing scheme which can potentially affect the stability of the scheme used for the interior region. In this work, we show that the ADI-FDTD method can be rendered unstable when higher-order mesh truncation techniques such as Higdon's Absorbing Boundary Condition (ABC) or Complementary Derivatives Method (COM) are used. When having large field gradients within a limited volume, a non-uniform grid can reduce the computational domain and, therefore, it decreases the computational cost of the FDTD method. However, for high-accuracy problems, different grid sizes increase the truncation error at the boundary of domains having different grid sizes. To address this problem, we introduce the Complementary Derivatives Method (CDM), a second-order accurate interpolation scheme. The CDM theory is discussed and applied to numerical examples employing the FDTD and ADI-FDTD methods.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/4137
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEngineering, Electronics and Electricalen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMathematicsen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPhysics, Radiationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledComplementary Derivatives Method (CDM)en_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledADI-FDTDen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCOMen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAbsorbing Boundary Conditionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledComputationalen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledElectrophysicsen_US
dc.titleThe ADI-FDTD Method for High Accuracy Electrophysics Applicationsen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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