EM scattering from a 2D target above a 1D sea surface using GPU based FDTD

This paper presents the graphics processor unit (GPU)-based finite difference time domain (FDTD) algorithm to investigate the electromagnetic (EM) scattering from a two-dimensional target above a one-dimensional rough sea surface with the Pierson–Moskowitz spectrum. The proposed method is validated by comparing the numerical results with those obtained through sequential FDTD execution on a central processing unit, as well as through method of moments. Using compute unified device architecture technology, significant speed-up ratios are achieved. Furthermore, the speedup is improved by shared memory and asynchronous transfer.

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