Incorporating the Havriliak-Negami dielectric model in the FD-TD method

Matthew F. Causley, Peter G. Petropoulos, Shidong Jiang

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Abstract

We derive and analyze an efficient algorithm to incorporate the anomalously dispersive Havriliak–Negami dielectric model of induced polarization in the Finite-difference time-domain (FD-TD) method. Our algorithm implements this dielectric model, which in the time-domain involves fractional derivatives and fractional differential operators, with a preset error over the desired computational time interval [0,Tcomp] and correctly takes into account the singularity at t=0+ of the corresponding time-domain dielectric susceptibility. The overall algorithm is shown to be second-order accurate in space and time, and to obey the standard FD-TD stability condition. Numerical experiments confirm our analysis.
Original languageAmerican English
JournalJournal of Computational Physics
Volume230
DOIs
StatePublished - May 10 2011

Disciplines

  • Mathematics

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