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...

The space and time discretization inherent to all FDTD schemes introduce non-physical dispersion errors, i.e. deviations of the speed of sound from the theoretical value predicted by the governing Euler differential equations. A general methodology for computing this dispersion error via straightforward numerical simulations of the FDTD schemes is presented. The method is shown to provide remar...

Triggered by the release in Feb., 2002 by the Federal Communications Commission of their first authorization for UWB[1], UWB research has been making fast progress across the world. The applications of UWB technology range from multimedia communications, through radar and biomedical image reconstruction, to positioning. Most of the system development for these applications requires the numerica...

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...

A parallel Finite-Difference-Time-Domain (FDTD) code has been developed to numerically model the elastic light scattering by biological cells. Extensive validation and evaluation on various computing clusters demonstrated the high performance of the parallel code and its significant potential of reducing the computational cost of the FDTD method with low cost computer clusters. The parallel FDT...

This paper presents a comprehensive full-wave analysis of packaged nonlinear active microwave circuits by applying the extended finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. Based on the approach of using equivalent sources, the device–wave interaction is characterized and incorporated into the FDTD time-marching scheme. As a consequence, analysis of linear and nonlinear properties, including ha...

Introduction FDTD is widely used for EM analyses in MRI applications, due to its simplicity and efficiency in wave modelling and its ability to handle field-tissue interactions. However, contemporary MRI problems, such as high field-tissue interaction modelling requires high performance computing. Conventional CPU-based FDTD calculations offer compromised computing performance without expensive...

This paper proposes a novel generalized total-field/scattered-field (G-TF/SF) formulation for finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) to efficiently model an infinite material scatterer illuminated by an arbitrarily oriented plane wave within a compact FDTD grid. This requires the sourcing of numerical plane waves traveling into, or originating from, the perfectly matched layer (PML) absorber boun...

─ In this contribution, a compute unified device architecture (CUDA) implementation of a two-dimensional finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) program is presented along with the OpenGL interoperability to visualize electromagnetic fields as an animation while an FDTD simulation is running. CUDA, which runs on a graphics processing unit (GPU) card, is used for electromagnetic field data generati...

A three-dimensional (3-D) finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) scheme is introduced to model the scattering from objects in continuous random media. FDTD techniques have been previously applied to scattering from random rough surfaces and randomly placed objects in a homogeneous background, but little has been done to simulate continuous random media with embedded objects where volumetric scatt...