DISPERSION COMPARISON FOR DSI-BASED AND TENSOR-BASED NONORTHOGONAL FDTD

An explicit formulation of the finite-difference time-domain-discrete surface integral (FDTD-DSI) technique has allowed a rigorous study of numerical dispersion for the method. The study shows that the DSI- and tensor-based FDTD methods do not have the same numerical dispersion r elation. It also clarifies the recently reported discrepancies in the dispersion relation between the two approaches. This study also shows that the tensor-based FDTD algorithm exhibits better dispersion proper ties for a two-dimensional uniformly skewed mesh.