Research Article
Finite-Difference Time Domain Techniques Applied to Electromagnetic Wave Interactions with Inhomogeneous Plasma Structures
Figure 6
Comparison between the magnitude of the electric field, in volts/meter, within 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) Eigenfunction, fin = 5 GHz |
| (b) FDTD, fin = 5 GHz |
| (c) Eigenfunction, fin = 10 GHz |
| (d) FDTD, fin = 10 GHz |
| (e) Eigenfunction, fin = 15 GHz |
| (f) FDTD, fin = 15 GHz |