Numerical Analysis of Electromagnetic Scattering From a Moving Target by the Lorentz Precise Integration Time-Domain Method

Abstract

A novel numerical method, referred to as Lorentz precise integration time-domain (Lorentz-PITD) method, is proposed to deal with the scattering problem from a moving conducting slab. Both the overset grid generation technique and the Lorentz transformation are employed in this method. By using the Lorentz transformation and the linear interpolation technique, the incident plane wave in the rest frame is introduced to the moving frame; the scattered fields are transformed from the moving frame to the rest frame. Numerical experiments validate the Lorentz-PITD method and show that the Lorentz-PITD method is more computationally efficient compared with the Lorentz finite-difference time-domain method. An accompanied find is that there must be a tradeoff between the applicable frequency range and the computation cost in the proposed method.