A New Efficient and Stable 3D Conformal FDTD
Open Access
- 21 July 2016
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters
- Vol. 26 (8) , 553-555
Abstract
A novel conformal technique for the FDTD method, here referred to as Conformal Relaxed Dey-Mittra method, is proposed and assessed in this letter. This technique helps avoid local time-step restrictions caused by irregular cells, thereby improving the global stability criterion of the original Dey-Mittra method. The approach retains a second-order spatial convergence. A numerical experiment based on the NASA almond has been chosen to show the improvement in accuracy and computational performance of the proposed method.Keywords
Funding Information
- (MINECO, Spain) Projects (TEC2013-48414-C3-01, TEC2015-68766-REDC)
- Junta de Andalucía, Spain (P12-TIC-1442)
- Alhambra-UGRFDTD (AIRBUS DS)
- CSIRC alhambra.ugr.es Supercomputing Center
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