Umran S. Inan is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where he has led pioneering research in plasma physics and electromagnetics for over 30 years. As a committed teacher, he has authored two previous books that have become standard textbooks for electromagnetics courses, as well as receiving numerous awards including the Tau Beta Pi Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award and the Outstanding Service Award from the Electrical Engineering Department for Excellence in Teaching. He is a fellow of both the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
1. Introduction
2. Review of electromagnetic theory
3. Partial differential equations and physical systems
4. The FDTD grid and the Yee algorithm
5. Numerical stability of finite difference methods
6. Numerical dispersion and dissipation
7. Introduction of sources
8. Absorbing boundary conditions
9. The perfectly matched layer
10. FDTD modeling in dispersive media
11. FDTD modeling in anistropic media
12. Some advanced topics
13. Unconditionally stable implicit FDTD methods
14. Finite-difference frequency domain
15. Finite volume and finite element methods.