Research Article

Finite-Difference Time Domain Techniques Applied to Electromagnetic Wave Interactions with Inhomogeneous Plasma Structures

Figure 9

Comparison between the magnitude of the electric field, in volts/meter, inside the plasma for linear cuts through the cylinder obtained by the eigenfunction method and the FDTD simulation for different incident frequencies; electron density is set to n0 = 5 × 1017 m−3, and electron collision frequency is set to ν = 500 × 106 Hz.
(a) Variables x and y = 0
(b) Variables y and x = 0