Efficient parallel LOD-FDTD method for Debye-dispersive media
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Hemmi, Tadashi; Costen, Fumie; González García, Salvador; Mehshan, Mustafa; Himeno, Ryutaro; Yokota, HideoMateria
Distributed memory systems Electromagnetic fields Electromagnetic propagation in dispersive media Finite-difference methods Numerical analysis Parallel programming Time-domain analysis
Date
2014Referencia bibliográfica
Hemmi, Tadashi; et al. Efficient parallel LOD-FDTD method for Debye-dispersive media. Ieee transactions on antennas and propagation, vol. 62, no. 3, 2014 pp. 1330-1338 [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/50140]
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The work described in this paper and the research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013, under grant agreement no 205294 (HIRF SE project), and from the Spanish National Projects TEC2010-20841-C04-04, CSD2008-00068, and the Junta de Andalucia Project P09-TIC-5327.Résumé
The locally one-dimensional finite-difference time-domain (LOD-FDTD) method is a promising implicit technique for solving Maxwell’s equations in numerical electromagnetics. Thispaper describes an efficient message passing interface (MPI)-parallel implementation of the LOD-FDTD method for Debye-dispersive media. Its computational efficiency is demonstrated to be superior to that of the parallel ADI-FDTD method. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed parallel algorithm in the simulation of a bio-electromagnetic problem: the deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the human body.