B11  Numerical Methods

Saturday, January 6  08:20-11:40  Room 1B40

Session Chairs:  Branislav Notaros, Yahya Rahmat-Samii

08:20  B11-1  SHAPED-PROFILED AND MATERIAL-ENGINEERED INHOMOGENEOUS LENS ANTENNAS: GO CURVED RAY TRACING AND APERTURE FIELDS

Jordan F. Budhu*, Yahya Rahmat-Samii

Univsersity of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California


08:40  B11-2  EM SIMULATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF UNDERGROUND MINES USING RAY TRACING, VECTOR PARABOLIC EQUATION, AND HYBRID APPROACHES

Cam Key*1, Blake Troksa1, Slobodan Savić1,2, Milan M. Ilić1,2, Branislav M. Notaro?1

1Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, YUGOSLAVIA


09:00  B11-3  SEEING THE INVISIBLE: IMAGING HIDDEN FEATURES WITH MULTIPLE-SCATTERING RECONSTRUCTIONS

Mert Hidayetoglu*1, Wen-Mei Hwu1, Weng C. Chew2

1Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
2Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN


09:20  B11-4  AN UNCONDITIONALLY STABLE TIME-DOMAIN SOLVER UNIFYING ELECTRODYNAMICS AND MICROMAGNETICS

Zhi (Jackie) Yao*, Rustu U. Tok, Yuanxun Ethan Wang

EE, UCLA, Los Angeles, California


09:40  B11-5  FAST DESIGN OF TERAHERTZ PLASMONIC DEVICES USING UNCONDITIONALLY STABLE FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN METHODS

Shubhendu Bhardwaj*

Florida International University, Miami


10:20  B11-6  SPHERICAL FDTD NUMERICAL DISPERSION ANALYSIS

Ravi C. Bollimuntha*1, Mohammed F. Hadi1,2, Melinda J. Piket-May1, Atef Z. Elsherbeni2

1Dept. of ECEE, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder
2EE Dept., Colorado School of Mines, Golden


10:40  B11-7  A FINITE VOLUMES-BASED FDTD MATERIAL DISPERSION MODELING

Neeti P. Sonth*1, Ravi C. Bollimuntha1, Mohammed F. Hadi1,2, Melinda J. Piket-May1, Atef Z. Elsherbeni2

1Dept. of ECEE, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
2EE Dept, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado


11:00  B11-8  ELECTRICAL SCIENCES AT SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES

Lorena I. Basilio*, Joseph P. Castro

Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque NM


11:20  B11-9  CHARACTERISTIC MODE ANALYSIS OF KNOT WIRE-SCATTERERS

Md Khadimul Islam*1, Ahmed M. Hassan1, Fernando Vargas-Lara2, Jack F. Douglas2, Edward J. Garboczi3

1Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri
2Materials Science and Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland
3Applied Chemicals and Materials Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado