In this paper, the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is applied to calculate the resonant frequency of dielectric resonators (DR’s) with curved surface. The contour-path integral FDTD (CFDTD) is modified to deal with the curved surface of the dielectric body while the traditional rectangular cells are maintained. Results are compared with theoretical values and staircase approximation...

This paper presents the results of measurements and simulations of the characteristics of 900 MHz band radio propagation channels in a tunnel environment. The simulations were made using the FDTD method (with companion UPML) and measurements made use of the swept frequency technique. Another method, the metaheuristic Simulated Annealing, was implemented for estimating the values of characterist...

We demonstrate how a tightly-focused coherent TEMmn laser beam can be computed in the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. The electromagnetic field around the focus is decomposed into a plane-wave spectrum, and approximated by a finite number of plane waves injected into the FDTD grid using the total-field/scattered-field (TF/SF) method. We provide an error analysis, and guidelines for...

This paper presents the application of unconditionally stable fundamental finite-difference time-domain (FADI-FDTD) method in modeling the interaction of terahertz pulse with healthy skin and basal cell carcinoma (BCC). The healthy skin and BCC are modeled as Debye dispersive media and the model is incorporated into the FADIFDTD method. Numerical experiments on delineating the BCC margin from h...

The interaction of light with multiple red blood cells was systematically investigated by the finite-difference time-domain method (FDTD). The simulations showed that the lateral multiple scattering between red blood cells is very weak and that the polarization has an almost insignificant influence on the distribution of the scattered light. The numerical results of the FDTD method were compare...

Time modulated linear antenna arrays consisting of printed dipoles above a ground plane are simulated using the finitedifference time-domain (FDTD) method. The FDTD method brings great convenience to the investigation of the time domain responses of the time modulated arrays. In conjunction with the near-to-far field transformation in time domain, the far-field transient response can be compute...

This paper presents an efficient method to accurately solve large body scattering problems with partial circular sym­ metry. The method effectively reduces the computational domain from three to two dimensions by using the reciprocity theorem. It does so by dividing the problem into two parts: a larger 3-D region with circular symmetry, and a smaller 2-D region without circular symmetry. An fin...

FDTD has become a popular tool in acoustic modelling in recent years. A main attraction of FDTD is that it can be implemented in computer code easily using simple straightforward marching algorithms and finite difference equations. However, this simplicity comes at a price. Dispersion errors, source scattering, and frequency dependent boundary reflections are just a few of the problems that FDT...

The Matrix-Pencil (MP) method is applied to the estimation of the undesired radiation from the microstrip line discontinuities. The Q factors are obtained from the complex resonant frequencies estimated from FDTD transient field by using MP. The number of the damped oscillations is estimated by using MDL which is widely used as an information theoretic criterion for the model order estimation. ...

A simulation model of the human body is developed in frequency dependent Crank Nicolson finite difference time domain (FD-CN-FDTD) method. Numerical simulation of electromagnetic wave propagation inside the human head is presented. Advantages of using time discretization beyond the Courant Friedrich-Lewy (CFL) limit in FD-CN-FDTD method are shown. Parallelization using Open Multi-Processing (Op...