The Electrical Engineering Handbook

9

Computational Electromagnetics: The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method

Allen Taflove,     Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Susan C. Hagness,     Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Melinda Piket-May,     Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA

9.1. Introduction

9.1.1. Background

9.1.2. Rise of Finite-Difference Time-Domain Methods

9.1.3. Characteristics of FDTD and Related Space-Grid Time-Domain Techniques

9.1.4. Classes of Algorithms

9.1.5. Predictive Dynamic Range

9.1.6. Scaling to Very Large Problem Sizes

9.2. Maxwell’s Equations

9.2.1.  ...