Subcell FDTD analysis of shielding effectiveness of a thin-walled enclosure with an aperture

An improved subcell model is presented for including thin material sheets method in the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method. This improved subcell can be used to simulate a thin magnetic (muS ne mu0) sheet. Then, the improved subcell model is applied to the analysis of the shielding effectiveness (SE) of the electromagnetic wave propagating through a thin infinite material sheet, which is verified by comparison with the analytical results. Updated equations for components of the field on special spatial grids which are on edges and corners of the enclosure are presented, and the subcell model is used for the analysis of a thin-walled enclosure with an aperture. The FDTD results are in very good agreement with the test results

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