Research Article
Finite-Difference Time Domain Techniques Applied to Electromagnetic Wave Interactions with Inhomogeneous Plasma Structures
Figure 7
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 electron densities; incident wave frequency is set to fin = 10 GHz, and electron collision frequency is set to ν = 500 × 106 Hz.
| (a) Eigenfunction, n0 = 5 × 1017 m − 3 |
| (b) FDTD, n0 = 5 × 1017 m−3 |
| (c) Eigenfunction, n0 = 1 × 1018 m−3 |
| (d) FDTD, n0 = 1 × 1018 m−3 |
| (e) Eigenfunction, n0 = 5 × 1018 m−3 |
| (f) FDTD, n0 = 5 × 1018 m−3 |