Electromagnetic Simulation Using the Fdtd Method

by Sullivan, Dennis M.

• ISBN13: 9781118459393
• ISBN10: 1118459393
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-06-17
• Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press

Summary

The major strength of this book is the first four chapters, which serve as the foundation for how to learn the method in simple language. The book begins with a simple one-dimensional simulation and progresses to a three-dimensional simulation. Each chapter contains a concise explanation of an essential concept and instruction on its implementation into computer code. Projects that increase in complexity are included, ranging from simulations in free space to propagation in dispersive media. Peripheral topics that are pertinent to time-domain simulation, such as Z-transforms and the discrete Fourier transform, are also covered.

Author Biography

DENNIS M. SULLIVAN is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Idaho, Moscow. An award-winning author and researcher, he has done extensive work in several areas of simulation, including EM dosimetry, hyperthermia cancer treatment, nonlinear optics, and quantum semiconductors. In 1997, Dr. Sullivan won the R. P. W. King Award from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society for the "Best Paper by a Young Investigator" for his paper "Z Transform Theory and FDTD Method." He is an IEEE Fellow, and is also the author of Quantum Mechanics for Electrical Engineers, published by Wiley-IEEE Press.

Table of Contents

1. One-Dimension Simulation with the FDTD Method

1.1 One-dimensional Free Space Formulation

1.2 Stability and the FDTD method

1. 3 The Absorbing Boundary Condition in One Dimension

1.4 Propagation in a Dielectric Medium

1.5 Simulating Different Sources

1.6 Determining Cell Size

1.7 Propagation in a Lossy Dielectric Medium

2. More on One-Dimensional Simulation

2.1 Reformulation Using the Flux Density

2.2 Calculating the Frequency Domain Output

2.3 Frequency-Dependent Media

2.4 Formulation Using Z Transforms

2.5 Formulating a Lorentz Medium

3. Two-Dimensional Simulation

3.1 FDTD in Two Dimensions

3.2 The Perfectly Matched Layer (PML)

3.3 Total/Scattered Field Formulation

4. Three-Dimensional Simulation

4.1 Free Space Formulation

4.2 The PML in Three Dimensions

4.3 The Total/Scattered Field Formulation in Three Dimensions

5. Examples of Electromagnetic Simulation Using FDTD

5.1 Nonlinear Optical Simulation

5.2 Finding the Eigenfunctions of a Two-Dimensional EM Cavity

5.3 Simulatin of RF Coils

6. Quantum Simulation

6.1 Simulation of the One-Dimensional Schrödinger Equation

6.2 Tunneling

6.3 Why Semiconductors Have Energy Bands

Appendix The Z Transform

A.1 The Sampled Time Domain and the Z Transform

A.2 Examples

A.3 Approximations in Going from the Fourier to the Z Domain.