Investigation of multithread FDTD schemes for faster analysis on multiprocessor PCs

Although the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method is a robust and efficient technique in the class of 3D electromagnetic solvers, many practical problems of microwave and antenna engineering still remain beyond reach because of long CPU times required. One idea to accelerate FDTD is though parallel implementations for multiprocessor computers. The target of our work is to develop FDTD schemes for such systems, making use of multithread programming techniques. We develop and investigate multithread FDTD schemes for PCs, Windows NT, based on the original concept of field vector decomposition.