Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) methods have long served as a workhorse for simulating electromagnetic wave propagation. In dispersive media, where material responses vary with frequency, the ...

Developed a CUDA version of the FDTD method and achieved a speedup 40x. Implemented on a NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800 GPU, which has 192 SPs, 1GB global memory, and a memory bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s.

Since its first introduction in 1966, the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method has been widely used as a tool for solving complex electromagnetic problems. For FDTD, Maxwell’s equations are ...

Allen Taflove, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northwestern Engineering who conducted pioneering work in the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, passed away at age 71 on ...