Progress in multiscale computational electromagnetics in time domain

Conference paper (2013)
Copyright: © 2013 Tobón, L.; Chen, J.; Lee, J.; Yuan, M.; Zhao, B.; Liu, Q.H.
DOI: https://doi.org/doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-230-1-55
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18-03-2013

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Abstract

Many system-level electromagnetic design problems are multiscale and very challenging to solve. They remain a significant barrier to system design optimization for a foreseeable future. Such multiscale problems often contain three electrical scales, i.e., the fine scale (geometrical feature size much smaller than a wavelength), the coarse scale (geometrical feature size greater than a wavelength), and the intermediate scale between the two extremes. Existing computational tools are based on single methodologies (such as finite element method or finite-difference time-domain method), and are unable to solve large multiscale problems. We will present our recent progress in solving realistic multiscale system-level EM design simulation problems in time domain. The discontinuous Galerkin time domain method is used as the fundamental framework for interfacing multiple scales with finite-element method, spectral element method, and finite difference method. Numerical results demonstrate significant advantages of our multiscale method. A more detail discussion of the method is given in [1].