Numerical dispersion relation for the 2D LOD-FDTD method in lossy media

A closed-form expression is derived for the numerical dispersion relation of the 2-D locally one-dimensional finite-difference time-domain (LOD-FDTD) method in lossy media. In contrast to the lossless formulation, we found that transverse-electric (TEz ) and transverse-magnetic (TMz ) waves in lossy...

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Autores: Pereda Fernández, José Antonio|||0000-0002-6347-9237, Grande Sáez, Ana María
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/13018
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10902/13018
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Locally-one-dimensional finite-difference time-domain (LODFDTD) method
Lossy media
Numerical dispersion
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Sumario:A closed-form expression is derived for the numerical dispersion relation of the 2-D locally one-dimensional finite-difference time-domain (LOD-FDTD) method in lossy media. In contrast to the lossless formulation, we found that transverse-electric (TEz ) and transverse-magnetic (TMz ) waves in lossy media exhibit different numerical dispersion relations. Moreover, when the material relaxation-time constant is not well resolved by the integration time-step, the TMz case shows much worse accuracy than the TEz case. To remove this limitation, a split-field LOD-FDTD formulation for TMz waves is then considered, which exhibits the same dispersion relation as the LOD-FDTD method for TEz waves. The validity of the theoretical results is illustrated through numerical simulations.