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

<table class="figure-group"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><object data="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ijap/volume-2018/3476462/figures/3476462.fig.0011a.svgz" name="3476462.fig.0011a" type="image/svg+xml"></object></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td>(a) Variables x and y = 0</td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><object data="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ijap/volume-2018/3476462/figures/3476462.fig.0011b.svgz" name="3476462.fig.0011b" type="image/svg+xml"></object></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td>(b) Variables y and x = 0</td></tr></table>

<div>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 collision frequencies; incident wave frequency is set to fin = 10 GHz, and electron density is set to n0 = 5 × 1017 m−3.</div>

International Journal of Antennas and Propagation

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Figure 11: Finite-Difference Time Domain Techniques Applied to Electromagnetic Wave Interactions with Inhomogeneous Plasma Structures 