A DIAGONAL SPLIT-CELL MODEL FOR THE OVERLAPPING YEE FDTD METHOD

doi:10.1016/S0252-9602(10)60009-4

Abstract

Abstract:

In this paper, we present a nonorthogonal overlapping Yee method for solving Maxwell's equations using the diagonal split-cell model. When material interface is presented, the diagonal split-cell model does not require permittivity averaging so that better accuracy can be achieved.
Our numerical results on optical force computation show that the standard FDTD method converges linearly, while the proposed method achieves quadratic convergence and better accuracy.

Key words: FDTD method, Overlapping Yee method, Maxwesl equations, Optical force

CLC Number:

78M12

Jinjie Liu, Moysey Brio, Jerome V. Moloney. A DIAGONAL SPLIT-CELL MODEL FOR THE OVERLAPPING YEE FDTD METHOD[J].Acta mathematica scientia,Series B, 2009, 29(6): 1670-1676.

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