This paper introduces an automatic tuning method of the tiling parameters required in the implementation of the three-dimensional FDTD method based on time-space tiling. The tuned tiled FDTD kernel was multi-threaded and its performance was evaluated on a multi-core processor. Compared with a naïvely implemented kernel, this tuned FDTD kernel performed better by more than a factor of two.

In this paper, an advanced numerical technique is proposed for a low-frequency electromagnetic field simulation. The finite difference time domain (FDTD) method is one of the best methods for analyzing electromagnetic field problems, which require high levels of precision, such as a heterogeneous whole-body voxel human model. However, directly using the standard FDTD method in the quasi-static ...

In this paper, a new algorithm for studying elastic wave propagation in the phononic crystals is presented. At first, the displacement-based forms of elastic wave equations are derived and then the forms are discretized using finite difference method. So the new algorithm is called the displacement-based finite difference time domain (DBFDTD). Three numerical examples are computed with this met...

In this contribution an enhanced version of the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method is used to calculate the field penetration and Specific Absorption Rate (S-AR) pattern for a current sheet applicator used in Hyperthermia treatment. The FDTD method uses modified equations to rigorously model three dimensional dielectric boundaries and a nonuniform grid for computational efficiency. Res...

In this contribution an enhanced version of the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method is used to calculate the field penetration and Specific Absorption Rate (S-AR) pattern for a current sheet applicator used in Hyperthermia treatment. The FDTD method uses modified equations to rigorously model three dimensional dielectric boundaries and a nonuniform grid for computational efficiency. Res...

In this paper, we use finite-difference time domain beam propagation method (FDTD-BPM) to analyze the pulse propagation in directional couplers. FDTD-BPM is an efficient method in numerical computation of optical passive components. The alternating-direction implicit method (ADIM) is applied to discretize the wave equation. The generalized Douglas (GD) scheme is used to the second order derivat...

To model periodic structures with oblique incident waves/scan angles in FDTD, the field transformation method is successfully used to analyze their characteristics. In the field transformation method, Maxwell’s equations are Floquet-transformed so that only a single period of infinite periodic structure can be modeled in FDTD by using periodic boundary conditions (PBCs). A new discretization me...

In this paper, the parallel implementation of the Wave-Equation Finite Difference Time Domain (WE-FDTD) method, using the Message Passing Interface (MPI) system, is presented. The WE-FDTD computational domain is divided into subdomains using onedimensional topology. Numerical simulations have been carried out for a line current source radiating in two-dimensional domains of different sizes and ...