Parallel implementation of the biorthogonal multiresolution time-domain method

Xianyang Zhu, Lawrence Carin, Traian Dogaru

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Abstract

The three-dimensional biorthogonal multiresolution time-domain (Bi-MRTD) method is presented for both free-space and half-space scattering problems. The perfectly matched layer (PML) is used as an absorbing boundary condition. It has been shown that improved numerical-dispersion properties can be obtained with the use of smooth, compactly supported wavelet functions as the basis, whereas we employ the Cohen-Daubechies-Fouveau (CDF) biorthogonal wavelets. When a CDF-wavelet expansion is used, the spatial-sampling rate can be reduced considerably compared with that of the conventional finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, implying that larger targets can be simulated without sacrificing accuracy. We implement the Bi-MRTD on a cluster of allocated-memory machines, using the message-passing interface (MPI), such that very large targets can be modeled. Numerical results are compared with analytical ones and with those obtained by use of the traditional FDTD method. © 2003 Optical Society of America.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)844-855
Number of pages12
JournalJournal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision
Volume20
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2003
Externally publishedYes

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