The vibration of an elastic beam experiencing vortex-induced vibration is numerically analyzed through a wake-oscillator model using the finite differences method. The influence of the excited mode, the initial velocity, the shedding pulsation and the mass ratio on the energy transfer among modes and the vibration amplitude is determined. Multiple frequencies are detected, and the power spectra...

1. Abstract: This paper describes a conformal Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) software package and presents its applications to RF antennas and mcrostrip circuit components. The program includes a Visual Basic GUI for graphically inputting the object geometries, setting source and boundary conditions, generating a non-uniform mesh, and post processing of the data. A robust Conformal Finite...

Effects of wall material on the channel capacity of an indoor multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system are investigated using a hybrid technique of the method of moments (MoM) and the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method with consideration of the Ricean K factor and the effective degrees of freedom (EDOF) of multiple paths. key words: MIMO, channel capacity, indoor channel, hybrid me...

In this paper, we propose a method for tailoring the absorption in a photonic crystal membrane. For that purpose, we first applied Time Domain Coupled Mode Theory to such a subwavelength membrane and demonstrated that 100% resonant absorption can be reached even for a symmetric membrane, if degenerate modes are involved. Design rules were then derived from this model in order to tune the absorp...

This letter presents a new hybrid method that efficiently combines two versatile numerical techniques, viz., the finite difference time domain (FDTD) and the method of moments in the time domain (MoMTD). The hybrid method is applicable to complex geometries comprising arbitrary thin-wire and inhomogeneous dielectric structures. It employs the equivalence theorem to separate the original problem...

The finite difference time domain (FDTD) method is commonly used as a numerically accurate way of propagating sound. However, it requires extensive computation. We present a simple method for accelerating FDTD. Specifically, we modify the FDTD update loop to prioritize computation where it is needed most in order to faithfully propagate waves through the simulated space. We estimate for each po...

The scope of the paper is the simulation of the sound field radiated by a string in the time domain. Different time domain methods have been successfully implemented for string simulations. These methods not only perform real-time string sound synthesis, but also pressure and particle velocity generated near strings can be obtained. This is very useful to analyze sound field interaction with ex...

In this paper, the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) distribution in a human head irradiated by an obliquely incident electromagnetic plane wave is studied. A simple planar multi-layered structure is used to model the human head. Moreover, the steady state thermal elevation distribution is calculated by solving the bioheat equation using the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. Both types ...

In this paper, we give sixth order compact finite difference formula for second order integro-differential equations (IDE) with different boundary conditions, and both of error estimates and numerical experiments confirm our compact finite difference method can get fifth order of accuracy. We also adjust compact finite difference method for first order IDE and a system of IDE and give numerical...

In this paper, an alternating implicit block method for solving two dimensional scalar wave equation is presented. The new method consist of two stages for each time step implemented in alternating directions which are very simple in computation. To increase the speed of computation, a group of adjacent points is computed simultaneously. It is shown that the presented method increase the maximu...