An FDTD absorbing boundary condition for anisotropic media based on NPML

Abstract

Based on the nearly perfectly matched layer (NPML) theory, a finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) absorbing boundary condition (ABC) is presented for truncating three-dimensional (3-D) anisotropic medium. In the proposed technique, the complex coordinate stretching in the NPML scheme and the spatial interpolation method are employed. The associated ABC formulations have the advantage of simplicity in the FDTD implementations. The radiation fields of an electric dipole in anisotropic media are calculated using the presented ABC. The results are numerically verified by the comparison with the reference solutions. Furthermore, in order to clearly show the effective absorbing performance of the proposed method, the reflection coefficient and time-dependent relative error for different layers NPML absorbing boundary are also simulated.