scholarly journals Stability and conservation properties of transient field simulations using FIT

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 93-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Schuhmann ◽  
T. Weiland

Abstract. Time domain simulations for high-frequency applications are widely dominated by the leapfrog timeintegration scheme. Especially in combination with the spatial discretization approach of the Finite Integration Technique (FIT) it leads to a highly efficient explicit simulation method, which in the special case of Cartesian grids can be regarded to be computationally equivalent to the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) algorithm. For stability reasons, however, the leapfrog method is restricted to a maximum stable time step by the well-known Courantcriterion, and can not be applied to most low-frequency applications. Recently, some alternative, unconditionally stable techniques have been proposed to overcome this limitation, including the Alternating Direction Implicit (ADI)-method. We analyze such schemes using a transient modal decomposition of the electric fields. It is shown that stability alone is not sufficient to guarantee correct results, but additionally important conservation properties have to be met. Das Leapfrog-Verfahren ist ein weit verbreitetes Zeitintegrationsverfahren für transiente hochfrequente elektrodynamischer Felder. Kombiniert mit dem räumlichen Diskretisierungsansatz der Methode der Finiten Integration (FIT) führt es zu einer sehr effizienten, expliziten Simulationsmethode, die im speziellen Fall kartesischer Rechengitter als äquivalent zur Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) Methode anzusehen ist. Aus Stabilitätsgründen ist dabei die Zeitschrittweite durch das bekannte Courant-Kriterium begrenzt, so dass das Leapfrog- Verfahren für niederfrequente Probleme nicht sinnvoll angewendet werden kann. In den letzten Jahren wurden alternativ einige andere explizite oder “halb-implizite" Zeitbereichsverfahren vorgeschlagen, u.a. das “Alternating Direction Implicit" (ADI)-Verfahren, die keiner Beschränkung des Zeitschritts aus Stabilitätsgründen unterliegen. Es zeigt sich aber, dass auch diese Methoden im niederfrequenten Fall nicht zu sinnvollen Simulationsergebnissen führen. Wie anhand einer transienten Modalanalyse der elektrischen Felder in einem einfachen 2D-Beispiel deutlich wird, ist die Ursache dafür die Verletzung wichtiger physikalischer Erhaltungseigenschaften durch ADI und verwandte Methoden.

Axioms ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Eng Leong Tan

The leapfrog schemes have been developed for unconditionally stable alternating-direction implicit (ADI) finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, and recently the complying-divergence implicit (CDI) FDTD method. In this paper, the formulations from time-collocated to leapfrog fundamental schemes are presented for ADI and CDI FDTD methods. For the ADI FDTD method, the time-collocated fundamental schemes are implemented using implicit E-E and E-H update procedures, which comprise simple and concise right-hand sides (RHS) in their update equations. From the fundamental implicit E-H scheme, the leapfrog ADI FDTD method is formulated in conventional form, whose RHS are simplified into the leapfrog fundamental scheme with reduced operations and improved efficiency. For the CDI FDTD method, the time-collocated fundamental scheme is presented based on locally one-dimensional (LOD) FDTD method with complying divergence. The formulations from time-collocated to leapfrog schemes are provided, which result in the leapfrog fundamental scheme for CDI FDTD method. Based on their fundamental forms, further insights are given into the relations of leapfrog fundamental schemes for ADI and CDI FDTD methods. The time-collocated fundamental schemes require considerably fewer operations than all conventional ADI, LOD and leapfrog ADI FDTD methods, while the leapfrog fundamental schemes for ADI and CDI FDTD methods constitute the most efficient implicit FDTD schemes to date.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Chen Yiwang ◽  
Ni Jiazheng ◽  
Liu Yawen ◽  
Dong Xiaohua ◽  
Zhang Pin

Overmuch memory and time of CPU have been taken by multiresolution time domain (MRTD) method in three-dimension issues. In order to solve this problem, the alternating direction implicit body of revolution multiresolution time domain (ADI-BOR-MRTD) scheme is presented. Firstly, based on body of revolution finite difference time domain (BOR-FDTD) method, equations of body of revolution multiresolution time domain (BOR-MRTD) method are implemented. Then alternating direction implicit (ADI) is introduced into BOR-MRTD method. Lastly, convolution perfect matched layer (CPML) is applied for ADI-BOR-MRTD method. Numerical results demonstrate that ADI-BOR-MRTD method saves more memory and time of CPU than FDTD and MRTD methods.


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