Table of Contents

Electrodynamics Entering the 21st Century. The One-Dimensional Scalar Wave Equation.Introduction to Maxwell's Equations and the Yee Algorithm. Numerical Dispersion and Stability. Incident Wave Source Conditions. Analytical Absorbing Boundary Conditions. Perfectly Matched Layer Absorbing Boundary Conditions. Near-to-Far-Field Transformation. Dispersive, Nonlinear, and Gain Materials. Local Subcell Models of Fine Geometrical Features. Nonuniform Grids, Nonorthogonal Grids, Unstructured Grids, and Subgrids. Bodies of Revolution. Periodic Structures. Modeling of Antennas. High-Speed Electronic Circuits with Active and Nonlinear Components. Photonics. Advances in PSTD Techniques. Advances in Unconditionally Stable Techniques. Advances in Hybrid FDTD-FEM Techniques. Advances in Hardware Acceleration for FDTD.

About the Author

Allen Taflove has pioneered the finite-difference time-domain method since 1972, and is a leading authority in the field of computational electrodynamics. He is currently a professor at Northwestern University. Susan Hagness is an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Hagness received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.