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Parallel Implementation of the Wave-Equation Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method Using the Message Passing Interface

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The parallel implementation of the Wave Equation Finite Difference Time Domain (WE-FDTD) method, using the Message Passing Interface system, is presented. The WE-FDTD computational domain is divided into subdomains using one-dimensional topology. Numerical simulations have been carried out for a line current source radiating in two-dimensional domains of different sizes and performed on a network of PCs interconnected with Ethernet. It has been observed that, for large computational domains, the parallel implementation of the WE-FDTD method provides a significant reduction in the computation time, when compared with the parallel implementation of the conventional FDTD algorithm.

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Eastern Mediterranean University, Gazimagusa, Mersin 10, Turkey

    Omar Ramadan, Oyku Akaydin & Muhammed Salamah

  2. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Eastern Mediterranean University, Gazimagusa, Mersin 10, Turkey

    Abdullah Y. Oztoprak

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Bilkent University, TR-06800, Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey

    Cevdet Aykanat

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    Tuǧrul Dayar

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Ramadan, O., Akaydin, O., Salamah, M., Oztoprak, A.Y. (2004). Parallel Implementation of the Wave-Equation Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method Using the Message Passing Interface. In: Aykanat, C., Dayar, T., Körpeoğlu, İ. (eds) Computer and Information Sciences - ISCIS 2004. ISCIS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3280. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30182-0_81

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