As a portable High Performance Computing (HPC) technology for microwave simulations, several kinds of dedicated computers for the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method have been considered. Author also proposed a dataflow architecture FDTD dedicated computer and it was shown that the estimated performance of the FDTD dataflow machine can exceed those of the high-end PC and GPU computers. ...

We provide an overview of our work to date on the parallelization of implicit time domain methods, in particular the alternating direction implicit finite-difference time-domain method (ADI-FDTD). First we describe a domain decomposition scheme for parallel ADI-FDTD in three dimensions that is suitable for implementation on widely available high performance computer architectures such as symmet...

Adapted finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) update equations exist for a number of objects that are smaller than the grid step, such as wires and thin slots. In this contribution we provide a technique that automatically generates new FDTD update equations for small objects. Our presentation will be focussed on 2-D-FDTD. We start from the FDTD equations in a fine grid where the time derivative...

In this study, a new method is introduced to reduce the splitting error in the ADI-FDTD method using iterative method. The proposed method includes two procedures. First we solve the procedure of ADI-FDTD method and secondly a new iterative scheme is adopted. The improvement of reduced splitting error is investigated by numerical examples. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Le...

In this paper, an approach is proposed to improve the numerical precision at the sound field simulation by the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. The FDTD method is a numerical solution for the wave equation, proposed by R. Courant. Although it has achieved to simulate wave propagation by numerical solution for the wave equation, it causes numerical dispersions due to their approximat...

It is known that the digital waveguide (DW) method for solving the wave equation numerically on a grid can be manipulated into the form of the standard finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method (also known as the “leapfrog” recursion). This paper derives a simple rule for going in the other direction, that is, converting the state variables of the FDTD recursion to corresponding wave variable...

In this paper, an unconditionally stable three-dimensional (3-D) finite-difference time-method (FDTD) is presented where the time step used is no longer restricted by stability but by accuracy. The principle of the alternating direction implicit (ADI) technique that has been used in formulating an unconditionally stable two-dimensional FDTD is applied. Unlike the conventional ADI algorithms, ho...

A numerical hybrid method for analyzing the wireless channel of Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication system is proposed by combining of the method of moments (MoM) and the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. The proposed method is capable of investigating a more practical MIMO wireless channel than the conventional methods, and CPU time is much less than that of the FDTD...

The computer simulation of electromagnetic (EM) wave propagation in time domain plays an important role of development of wireless communications. Higher frequency is required for high data-rate communication; it makes the simulation large scale computation. Up to now, the FDTD method have been widely used for the computer simulation[1]. Recently, another method, the constrained interpolation p...

The finite difference time domain (FDTD) method is commonly used as a numerically accurate way of propagating sound. However, it requires extensive computation. We present a simple method for accelerating FDTD. Specifically, we modify the FDTD update loop to prioritize computation where it is needed most in order to faithfully propagate waves through the simulated space. We estimate for each po...