Recent Advances in Finite Integration Technique for High Frequency Applications

We review some recent extensions of the Finite Integration Technique (FIT), which is known to be a generalization of the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method. Some shortcomings of the standard formulation are discussed which limit the applicability or at least the efficiency of the time domain variant of FIT. The novel developments which are proposed in this paper cover both the basic geometrical modeling in space and time and advanced methods to solve the algebraic problems in time and frequency domain. A numerical application is presented to demonstrate the performance of the algorithms in the high frequency regime.

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