Parallel Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method -- Contents -- Preface -- FDTD Method -- 1.1 FINITE-DIFFERENCE CONCEPT -- 1.2 INTRODUCTION TO FDTD -- 1.3 NUMERICAL DISPERSION -- 1.4 STABILITY ANALYSIS -- 1.5 NONUNIFORM MESH -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 Boundary Conditions -- 2.1 PEC AND PMC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS -- 2.2 MUR'S ABSORBING BOUNDARY CONDITION -- 2.3 UNSPLIT PML -- 2.4 STRETCHED COORDINATE PML -- 2.5 TIME CONVOLUTION PML -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 Improvement of the FDTD -- 3.1 CONFORMAL FDTD FOR PEC OBJECTS -- 3.2 CONFORMAL TECHNIQUE FOR DIELECTRIC -- 3.3 ALTERNATING DIRECTION IMPLICIT (ADI) ALGORITHM -- 3.3.1 Update for ADI Equations -- 3.3.2 PML Truncation Techniques for ADI-FDTD -- 3.3.3 Separable Backward-Central Difference -- 3.4 SIMULATION OF DISPERSIVE MEDIA -- 3.4.1 Recursive Convolution -- 3.4.2 Pole Extraction Techniques -- 3.4.3 Simulation of Double-Negative Materials -- 3.5 CIRCUIT ELEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- -- -- Chapter 4 Excitation Source -- 4.1 INTRODUCTION -- 4.2 TIME SIGNATURE -- 4.3 LOCAL SOURCE -- 4.4 SOURCES FOR UNIFORM TRANSMISSION LINES -- 4.5 POWER INTRODUCED BY LOCAL EXCITATION SOURCES -- 4.6 PHASE DIFFERENCE AND TIME DELAY -- 4.7 PLANE WAVE SOURCES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 Data Collection and Post-Processing -- 5.1 TIME-FREQUENCY TRANSFORMATION -- 5.2 MODE EXTRACTION OF TIME SIGNAL -- 5.3 CIRCUIT PARAMETERS -- 5.4 NEAR-TO-FAR-FIELD TRANSFORMATION -- 5.4.1 Basic Approach -- 5.4.2 Far-Field Calculation for Planar Structures -- 5.4.3 Data Compression and Its Application -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 Introduction to Parallel Computing Systems -- 6.1 ARCHITECTURE OF THE PARALLEL SYSTEM -- 6.1.1 Symmetric Multiprocessor -- 6.1.2 Distributed Shared Memory System -- 6.1.3 Massively Parallel Processing -- 6.1.4 Beowulf PC Cluster -- 6.2 PARALLEL PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES.

6.3 MPICH ARCHITECTURE -- 6.4 PARALLEL CODE STRUCTURE -- 6.5 EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS OF PARALLEL FDTD -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 Parallel FDTD Method -- 7.1 INTRODUCTION TO THE MPI LIBRARY -- 7.2 DATA EXCHANGING TECHNIQUES -- 7.3 DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION TECHNIQUE -- 7.4 IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PARALLEL FDTD METHOD -- 7.4.1 Data Exchange Along the x-Direction -- 7.4.2 Data Exchange Along the y-Direction -- 7.4.3 Data Exchange Along the z-Direction -- 7.5 RESULT COLLECTION -- 7.5.1 Nonuniform Mesh Collection -- 7.5.2 Result Collection -- 7.5.3 Far-Field Collection -- 7.5.4 Surface Current Collection -- 7.6 ASSOCIATED PARALLEL TECHNIQUES -- 7.6.1 Excitation Source -- 7.6.1.1 Current Source -- 7.6.1.2 Electric Current Source with an Internal Resistance -- 7.6.1.3 Waveguide Excitation -- 7.6.1.4 Plane Wave Source -- 7.6.2 Waveguide Matched Load -- 7.6.3 Subgridding Technique -- 7.7 NUMERICAL EXAMPLES -- 7.7.1 Crossed Dipole -- 7.7.2 Circular Horn Antenna -- 7.7.3 Patch Antenna Array Beam Scanning -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 8 Illustrative Engineering Applications -- 8.1 FINITE PATCH ANTENNA ARRAY -- 8.2 FINITE CROSSED DIPOLE ANTENNA ARRAY -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 FDTD Analysis of Bodies of Revolution -- 9.1 BOR/FDTD -- 9.2 UPDATE EQUATIONS FOR BOR/FDTD -- 9.3 PML FOR BOR/FDTD -- 9.4 NEAR-TO-FAR-FIELD TRANSFORMATION IN BOR/FDTD -- 9.5 SINGULAR BOUNDARY IN THE BOR/FDTD -- 9.6 PARTIALLY SYMMETRIC PROBLEM -- 9.6.1 Normally Incident Plane Wave -- 9.6.2 Obliquely Incident Plane Wave -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10 Parallel BOR/FDTD -- 10.1 INTRODUCTION TO PARALLEL BOR/FDTD -- 10.2 IMPLEMENTATION OF PARALLEL BOR/FDTD -- 10.3 EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS OF PARALLEL BOR/FDTD -- 10.4 REFLECTOR ANTENNA SYSTEM -- 10.4.1 Reflector Antenna Simulation -- 10.4.2 Combination with Reciprocity Principle.

10.4.3 Simulation of the Reflector Antenna System -- REFERENCES -- Appendix A Introduction to Basic MPI Functions -- A.1 SELECTED MPICH FUNCTIONS IN FORTRAN -- A.2 SELECTED MPICH FUNCTIONS IN C/C++ -- A.3 MPI DATA TYPE -- A.4 MPI OPERATOR -- A.5 MPICH SETUP -- A.5.1 MPICH Installation and Configuration for Windows -- A.5.2 MPICH Installation and Configuration for Linux -- REFERENCES -- Appendix B PC Cluster-Building Techniques -- B.1 SETUP OF A PC CLUSTER FOR THE LINUX SYSTEM -- -- B.1.1 PC Cluster System Description -- B.1.2 Linux Installation -- B.1.3 Linux System Configuration -- B.1.3.1 NIS Configuration -- B.1.3.2 NFS Server Configuration -- B.1.4 Developing Tools -- B.1.5 MPICH -- B.1.6 Batch Processing Systems -- B.2 PARALLEL COMPUTING SYSTEM BASED ON WINDOWS -- B.2.1 System Based on Windows -- B.2.2 System Based on a Peer Network -- B.3 USING AN EXISTING BEOWULF PC CLUSTER -- REFERENCES -- List of Notations -- Basic parameters and units -- About the Authors -- Index.