A New Unconditionally Stable Scheme for FDTD Method Using Associated Hermite Orthogonal Functions

Abstract

An unconditionally stable solution using associated Hermite (AH) functions is proposed for the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. The electromagnetic fields and their time derivatives in time-domain Maxwell's equations are expanded by these orthonormal basis functions. By applying Galerkin temporal testing procedure to these expanded equations the time variable can be eliminated from the calculations. A set of implicit equations is derived to calculate the magnetic filed expansion coefficients of all orders of AH functions for the temporal variable. And the electrical field coefficients can be obtained respectively. With the appropriate translation and scale parameters, we can find a minimum-order basis functions subspace to approach a particular electromagnetic field. The numerical results have shown that the proposed method can reduce the CPU time to 0.59% of the traditional FDTD method while maintaining good accuracy.