Acceleration of the 3D ADI-FDTD method using graphics processor units

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 241-244

  Stefański, Tomasz P ^a   Drysdale, Timothy D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acceleration; FDTD methods; Parallel processing; Visual languages

Indexed keywords

3D ADI-FDTD METHOD; ADI-FDTD; ALTERNATING DIRECTION IMPLICIT FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN; COARSE-GRAINED; COMPUTATIONAL POWER; COURANT-FRIEDRICHS-LEWY; CYCLIC REDUCTION METHODS; FDTD METHOD; GRAPHICS PROCESSOR UNITS; PARALLEL PROCESSING; STABILITY CONSTRAINTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D); TIME STEP SIZE; TRIDIAGONAL MATRICES; TRIDIAGONAL SYSTEMS; VISUAL LANGUAGE; VISUAL LANGUAGES;

INSULATING MATERIALS; LINGUISTICS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MICROWAVES; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

EID: 77949588411     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2009.5165678     Document Type: Conference Paper

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