Collection of FDTD animations - Best Visualizations of Finite Difference Time Algorithm

Collection of various scenarios simulated using the finite difference time domain (FDTD) algorithm. Each of the scenarios was already available as separate videos, here we combine them for seamless illustration.

0:00 Propagation in Random Medium    • Electromagnetic Propagation of Ultraw...  
0:27 Dish Antenna    • Dish Antenna Animation (Parabolic ant...  
0:47 Lens propagation    • FDTD Simulation of a Half Convex Lens...  
1:03 Luneburg lens    • Lüneburg Lens - Dielectric Antenna (F...  
1:20 Fisheye lens    • Maxwell Fisheye Lens Propagation (FDT...  
1:49 Ground Penetrating Radar    • Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) [Geora...  
2:11 Periodic Band Gap Structure    • Periodic Band Gap (PGB) Waveguide and...  
3:02 Diffraction from slits    • Diffraction from Point Scatterers [FD...  
3:16 Optical Ring Resonator    • Optical Ring Resonator (FDTD Animatio...  
3:36 Dielectric waveguide structures    • Dielectric Waveguide Structures (FDTD...  
4:02 Tapered Dielectric waveguide    • Radiation from a Circularly Tapered D...  
4:13 Chirp gratings    • Diffraction from Chirp Shaped Gratings  
5:27 Total field / scattered field    • Total Field / Scattered Field (TF/SF)...  
5:46 Diffraction slits    • Diffraction from Double Slits (Young'...  
6:04 Corner reflector    • Corner Reflector / Retroreflector (FD...  
6:36 Bent waveguides    • Bent Waveguides [FDTD animation]  
7:28 Dipole antenna radiation    • Electric Dipole Propagation Pattern [...  
7:43 Perfectly Matched Layers (PML)    • Effect of Perfectly Matched Layers (P...  
7:52 Diffraction from Wedge    • Diffraction from Wedge (TEz case) + D...  
9:14 Smooth turn-on of source    • FDTD simulations - Why Smooth Turn-on...  
9:38 Source inside PML    • FDTD: What happens if the Source is I...  
10:02 Place wave reflection from half space
10:32 B-scan GPR    • Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) B-Scan...  
12:37 Dipole radiation    • Half Wavelength Dipole Antenna Radiation  
12:50 Diffraction from point scatterers    • Diffraction from Point Scatterers [FD...  
13:43 Beamforming    • Beamforming by Phased Array Antennas ...  

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