In a fluid-saturated porous medium, an electromagnetic (EM) wavefield induces an acoustic wavefield due to the electrokinetic effect. A potential geophysical application of this effect is electroseismic (ES) logging, in which the converted acoustic wavefield is received in a fluid-filled borehole to evaluate the parameters of the porous formation around the borehole. In this paper, a finite-dif...

area of research, dealing with diagnostic and monitoring the health of the electrical transmission networks and find automatically the failures. One of the recently developped (NDT) techniques is Time Domain Reflectometry methods, they are quite efficient for detecting important damages (hard faults), such as short or open-circuits. Interpreting the results obtained with reflectometry instrumen...

In this paper, a new algorithm for studying elastic wave propagation in the phononic crystals is presented. At first, the displacement-based forms of elastic wave equations are derived and then the forms are discretized using finite difference method. So the new algorithm is called the displacement-based finite difference time domain (DBFDTD). Three numerical examples are computed with this met...

Ultra-short pulse is a promising technology for achieving ultra-high data rate transmission which is required to follow the increased demand of data transport over an optical communication system. Therefore, the propagation of such type of pulses and the effects that it may suffer during its transmission through an optical waveguide has received a great deal of attention in the recent years. We...

The phase error in finite-difference (FD) methods is related to the spatial resolution and thus limits the maximum grid size for a desired accuracy. Greater accuracy is typically achieved by defining finer resolutions or implementing higher order methods. Both these techniques require more memory and longer computation times. In this paper, new modified methods are presented which are optimized...

The finite-difference-time-domain (FDTD), although recognized as a flexible, robust and simple to implement method for solving complex electromagnetic problems, is subject to numerical dispersion errors. In addition to the traditional ways for reducing dispersion, i.e., increasing sampling rate and using higher order degrees of accuracy, a number of schemes have been proposed recently. In this ...

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...