Electromagnetic Simulation Using the FDTD Method

The major strength of this book is the first four chapters, which serve as the foundation for how to learn the method in simple language. The book begins with a simple one-dimensional simulation and progresses to a three-dimensional simulation. Each chapter contains a concise explanation of an essential concept and instruction on its implementation into computer code. Projects that increase in complexity are included, ranging from simulations in free space to propagation in dispersive media. Peripheral topics that are pertinent to time-domain simulation, such as Z-transforms and the discrete Fourier transform, are also covered.

DENNIS M. SULLIVAN is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Idaho, Moscow. An award-winning author and researcher, he has done extensive work in several areas of simulation, including EM dosimetry, hyperthermia cancer treatment, nonlinear optics, and quantum semiconductors. In 1997, Dr. Sullivan won the R. P. W. King Award from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society for the "Best Paper by a Young Investigator" for his paper "Z Transform Theory and FDTD Method." He is an IEEE Fellow, and is also the author of Quantum Mechanics for Electrical Engineers, published by Wiley-IEEE Press.