Computational Electrodynamics The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method / Edition 1

by Allen Taflove

Overview

This updated edition of a best-seller maintains its position as the essential reference aid for professional engineers using the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) method for Maxwell's equations. It explains everything you need to know about this method, and brings you up-to-date on the latest FDTD techniques, saving you time and money. In a single resource, you get the information you need everyday when designing and analyzing key electronic technology such as antennas for wireless communications devices, high-speed digital and microwave circuits, and integrated optics.

You can produce more effective designs in less time with this comprehensive treatment of FDTD techniques, theory, modeling methods, and applications. It provides sample FDTD codes written in Matlab that serve as a self-guided refresher, and examples of how to use FDTD to model antennas, advanced digital and high-speed circuits, and micron-scale photonic devices to reduce design time and keep you on the cutting edge.

What's more, you get an updated and expanded discussion of modern engineering applications for FDTD, allowing you to see the big picture, and new tutorial material for improved self-instruction.

Software included! Contains a CD-ROM featuring sample FDTD codes with visualization capabilities written in Matlab. System Requirements: 200 MHz processor, 32 MB RAM, 10 MB hard disk space, Matlab Version 5.0.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780890067925
Publisher:	Artech House, Incorporated
Publication date:	05/31/1995
Series:	Artech House Antenna Library and Technology Management Libra
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	624
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.50(d)

Table of Contents

Contents: Preface. Reinventing Electromagnetics. The One-Dimensional Scalar Wave Equation. Introduction to Maxwell's Equations and the Yee Algorithm. Numerical Stability. Numerical Dispersion. Enhanced FDTD Algorithms. Incident Wave Source Conditions for Free Space and Waveguides. Absorbing Boundary Conditions for Free Space and Waveguides. Near-to-Far-Field Transformation. Dispersive, Nonlinear, and Gain Materials. Local Subcell Models of Fine Geometrical Features. Explicit Time-Domain Solution of Maxwell's Equations Using Nonorthogonal and Unstructured Grids. The Body of Revolution FD-TD Algorithm. FDTD Modeling of Periodic Structures. Modeling of Electromagnetic Fields in High-Speed Electronic Circuits. FD-TD and Antenna Analysis. Emerging Application Areas. Efficient FD-TD Algorithms for Vector and Multiprocessor Computers. Appendix. Index.

Editorial Reviews

A book/CD-ROM reference for professional engineers, professors, and students using finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) solutions to Maxwell's equations. Provides a tutorial of FDTD theory and techniques as well as details on the latest FDTD methods for design of key electronic components such as antennas for wireless communications devices, high-speed digital and microwave circuits, and integrated optics. Includes chapter problems and projects. The CD-ROM features sample FDTD codes with visualization capabilities, written in MATLAB. Taflove teaches electrical and computer engineering at Northwestern University. Hagness is assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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