New high order FDTD method to solve EMC problems

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N. Deymier
T. Volpert
X. Ferrieres
V. Mouysset
B. Pecqueux

Abstract

In electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) context, we are interested in developing new ac- curate methods to solve efficiently and accurately Maxwell’s equations in the time domain. Indeed, usual methods such as FDTD or FVTD present im- portant dissipative and/or dispersive errors which prevent to obtain a good numerical approximation of the physical solution for a given industrial scene unless we use a mesh with a very small cell size. To avoid this problem, schemes like the Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method, based on higher order spa- tial approximations, have been introduced and stud- ied on unstructured meshes. However the cost of this kind of method can become prohibitive accord- ing to the mesh used. In this paper, we first present a higher order spatial approximation method on carte- sian meshes. It is based on a finite element ap- proach and recovers at the order 1 the well-known Yee’s schema. Next, to deal with EMC problem, a non-oriented thin wire formalism is proposed for this method. Finally, several examples are given to present the benefits of this new method by compar- ison with both Yee’s schema and DG approaches.

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Deymier, N., Volpert, T., Ferrieres, X., Mouysset, V., & Pecqueux, B. (2015). New high order FDTD method to solve EMC problems. Advanced Electromagnetics, 4(2), 17–25. https://doi.org/10.7716/aem.v4i2.284
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