An SBP-SAT FDTD Subgridding Method Using Staggered Yee’s Grids Without Modifying Field Components for TM Analysis

Abstract

A summation-by-parts simultaneous approximation term (SBP-SAT) finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) subgridding method is proposed to model geometrically fine structures in this article. Compared with other works, the proposed SBP-SAT FDTD method uses the staggered Yee’s grid without adding or modifying any field components through field extrapolation on the boundaries to make the discrete operators satisfy the SBP property. The accuracy of extrapolation keeps consistency with that of the second-order finite-difference scheme near the boundaries. In addition, the SATs are used to weakly enforce the tangential boundary conditions between multiple mesh blocks with different mesh sizes. With carefully designed interpolation matrices and selected free parameters of the SATs, no dissipation occurs in the whole computational domain. Therefore, its long-time stability is theoretically guaranteed. Four numerical examples are carried out to validate its effectiveness. Results show that the proposed SBP-SAT FDTD subgridding method is stable, accurate, efficient, and easy to implement based on the existing FDTD codes with only a few modifications.