IMPLEMENTATION OF A SURFACE IMPEDANCE FORMALISM AT OBLIQUE-INCIDENCE IN FDTD METHOD

Modelling of interfaces between two media, using time-domain surface impedances, permits one to reduce the discretization volume in the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) technique. The method presented here is based on an exact formulation of surface impedances, starting from Fresnel reflection coefficients for oblique incidence of the incident wave. The concept, valid for homogeneous and frequency-independent media, is then introduced in an FDTD algorithm where it is converted into a surface-impedance boundary condition (SIBC) for vertical or horizontal polarizations of locally plane waves. In this paper, two- and three-dimensional results are compared to those computed with classical FDTD or Fresnel reflection coefficients involving a Fourier transform.