• DocumentCode
    861547
  • Title

    Numerical Analysis for an Improved ADI-FDTD Method

  • Author

    Liu, Guo-Sheng ; Zhang, Guo-ji ; Hu, Bin-Jie

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., South China Univ. of Technol. (SCUT), Guangzhou
  • Volume
    18
  • Issue
    9
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    569
  • Lastpage
    571
  • Abstract
    The numerical performance of an improved alternating direction implicit finite-difference time-domain (ADI-FDTD) method is studied in this letter. Theoretical analysis shows that this method is unconditionally stable and has low splitting error. Compared with the regular ADI-FDTD method, this method is a better splitting formulation for the Crank-Nicolson FDTD method.
  • Keywords
    finite difference time-domain analysis; Crank-Nicolson scheme; Routh-Hurwitz method; alternating direction implicit method; finite-difference time-domain method; splitting error; unconditional stability; Computational efficiency; Computer science; Equations; Finite difference methods; Iterative methods; Numerical analysis; Numerical stability; Stability analysis; Testing; Time domain analysis; Alternating direction implicit finite-difference time-domain (ADI–FDTD); Crank–Nicolson (CN) scheme; Routh–Hurwitz method; splitting error; unconditional stability;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1531-1309
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/LMWC.2008.2002441
  • Filename
    4624609