• DocumentCode
    979083
  • Title

    Elimination of spurious solutions associated with exact transparent boundary conditions in FDTD solvers

  • Author

    Lu, Mingyu ; Shanker, Balasubramanian ; Michielssen, Eric

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA
  • Volume
    3
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    2004
  • Firstpage
    59
  • Lastpage
    62
  • Abstract
    An analysis of spurious solutions that often plague finite-difference time-domain solvers supplemented with certain transparent boundary conditions (TBC) is presented. It is shown that the electric- and magnetic-field TBC kernels may support undesired spurious modes. A combined-field TBC kernel is proposed that does not allow for the buildup of resonant modes. Its functionality is demonstrated by two numerical examples.
  • Keywords
    boundary-value problems; computational electromagnetics; finite difference time-domain analysis; resonance; FDTD solver spurious solution elimination; combined-field TBC kernel; computational electromagnetics; electric-field TBC kernels; finite-difference time-domain solvers; magnetic-field TBC kernels; resonant modes; spurious modes; transparent boundary conditions;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1536-1225
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LAWP.2004.827892
  • Filename
    1296188