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A Simple Approximation Formula for Numerical Dispersion Error in 2-D and 3-D FDTD Method

Jun SONODA, Keimei KAINO, Motoyuki SATO

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The finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method has been widely used in recent years to analyze the propagation and scattering of electromagnetic waves. Because the FDTD method has second-order accuracy in space, its numerical dispersion error arises from truncated higher-order terms of the Taylor expansion. This error increases with the propagation distance in cases of large-scale analysis. The numerical dispersion error is expressed by a dispersion relation equation. It is difficult to solve this nonlinear equation which have many parameters. Consequently, a simple formula is necessary to substitute for the dispersion relation error. In this study, we have obtained a simple formula for the numerical dispersion error of 2-D and 3-D FDTD method in free space propagation.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E99-C No.7 pp.793-796
Publication Date
2016/07/01
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Online ISSN
1745-1353
DOI
10.1587/transele.E99.C.793
Type of Manuscript
BRIEF PAPER
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Jun SONODA
  Sendai College
Keimei KAINO
  Sendai College
Motoyuki SATO
  Tohoku University

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