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5 November 2014 Graphics processor unit accelerated finite-difference time domain method for electromagnetic scattering from one-dimensional large scale rough soil surface at low grazing incidence
Chungang Jia, Lixin Guo, Ke Li
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Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, Vol. 8, Issue 1, 084795 (November 2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.8.084795
Abstract
The graphics processor unit-based finite-difference time domain (FDTD) algorithm is applied to study the electromagnetic (EM) scattering from one-dimensional (1-D) large scale rough soil surface at a low grazing incident angle. The FDTD lattices are truncated by a uniaxial perfectly matched layer, and finite difference equations are employed in the whole computation domain for convenient parallelization. Using Compute Unified Device Architecture technology, we achieve significant speedup factors. Also, shared memory and asynchronous transfer are used to further improve the speedup factors. Our method is validated by comparing the numerical results with those obtained by using a CPU. The influences of the incident angle, correlation length l, and root-mean-square height δ on the bistatic scattering coefficient of a 1-D large scale rough surface at low grazing incidence are also discussed.
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Chungang Jia, Lixin Guo, and Ke Li "Graphics processor unit accelerated finite-difference time domain method for electromagnetic scattering from one-dimensional large scale rough soil surface at low grazing incidence," Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 8(1), 084795 (5 November 2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.8.084795
Published: 5 November 2014
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KEYWORDS
Finite-difference time-domain method
Scattering
Visualization
Electromagnetic scattering
Grazing incidence
Lithium
Magnetism
CHORUS Article. This article was made freely available starting 05 November 2015
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