Beam Propagation Method Based on the Iterated Crank–Nicolson Scheme for Solving Large-Scale Wave Propagation Problems

Author

Ketzaki, Dimitra A. ; Rekanos, Ioannis T. ; Kosmanis, Theodoros I. ; Yioultsis, Traianos V.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Volume

51

Issue

3

fYear

2015

fDate

Mar-15

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

An explicit vectorial beam propagation method, based on the iterated Crank-Nicolson scheme is developed and utilized to solve electromagnetic wave propagation problems in large-scale structures. A full wide-angle extension is studied, based on a direct calculation of the one-way differential operator only in the first propagation step, together with a fast modification along the propagation axis, to account for material and structure variations.

Keywords

electromagnetic wave propagation; iterated Crank-Nicolson scheme; large-scale electromagnetic wave propagation problems; one-way differential operator; propagation axis; vectorial beam propagation method; Approximation methods; Computational modeling; Mathematical model; Propagation; Sparse matrices; Stability analysis; Vehicles; Beam propagation method (BPM); iterated Crank???Nicolson (ICN) scheme;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMAG.2014.2354979

Filename

7093608