A New Efficient Algorithm for 3-D Laguerre-Based Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method

Abstract

We previously introduced a new efficient algorithm for implementing the 2-D Laguerre-based finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. The new 2-D efficient algorithm is based on the use of an iterative procedure to reduce the splitting error associated with the perturbation term, and it does not involve any nonphysical intermediate variables. Numerical results indicated that the new efficient algorithm shows better performance for modeling some regions with larger spatial derivatives of the field. In this paper, we extend this approach to a full 3-D wave. Numerical formulations of the new 3-D Laguerre-based FDTD method are devised and simulation results are compared to those using the conventional 3-D FDTD method and the alternating-direction implicit (ADI) FDTD method. We numerically verify that, at the comparable accuracy, the efficiency of the proposed method with an iterative procedure is superior to the FDTD method and the ADI -FDTD method. Also, in order to verify the stability of the iterative procedure, we present a convergence analysis and a long-time simulation to it in the paper.