Subcell Treatment of Sloped Interfaces between Debye Materials in the FDTD Method

Subcell Treatment of Sloped Interfaces between Debye Materials in the FDTD Method

This paper presents the application of the subcell technique for the treatment of sloped interface in finite-difference time-domain method. The technique is based on the averaging of permittivities in each cell crossed by the material interface. The frequency-dependent behaviour of materials was characterized using one-pole Debye model. The numerical experiment was conducted on the two-dimensional space.

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