A novel domain decomposition-finite difference time domain method for composite scattering from a target above rough surface

• Published in: Waves in random and complex media Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 255 - 269
• Main Authors: Tian, Wei, Wei, Bing, He, Xin-Bo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Taylor & Francis 04.03.2021; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Composite electromagnetic scattering; Computational efficiency; domain decomposition method; Domain decomposition methods; Equivalence principle; finite difference time domain; Finite difference time domain method; Incident waves; Mathematical analysis; Reflected waves; rough surface; Scattering; Time domain analysis
• ISSN: 1745-5030; 1745-5049
• DOI: 10.1080/17455030.2019.1581388

A novel domain decomposition-finite difference time domain (DD-FDTD) method is proposed to improve the computation efficiency of the traditional finite difference time domain (FDTD) method in calculating composite scattering from a target above a rough surface. In this scheme, the target and the rough surface are placed into the target subdomain and the rough surface subdomain, respectively. The incident waves of the target subdomain, including the directly illuminated wave and the nonplanar reflected wave from the rough surface, are introduced by invoking the Huygens' principle and the equivalence principle. The FDTD method is executed in each subdomain to obtain the scattering fields of the target and the rough surface, and the scattering contribution of the rough surface from the reflected wave of target is taken into account. In comparison with the traditional FDTD method, the proposed method has significant advantages in saving memory usage and in reducing computation time, which is more efficient in solving the composite scattering problems with larger distance between target and rough surface.