Efficient Antenna Modeling by DGTD: Leap-frog discontinuous Galerkin timedomain method.

An essential characteristic for the accurate simulation of wideband antenna systems is the modeling of their intricate geometrical details, including the feeding ports. In this article, we describe a leap-frog (LF) discontinuous Galerkin (DG) time-domain (TD) method combined with an efficient local time-stepping (LTS) strategy to deal with the high contrast in the element sizes for the electromagnetic modeling of these kinds of structures. The traditional delta-gap source model and a realistic coaxial port model are revisited. Numerical examples are presented and validated with measurements and commercial software simulations to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed approach.

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