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110 I. Sazonov et al.<br />

(a)<br />

(b)<br />

Fig. 13. Simulation of scattering of a plane TE wave by a PEC cavity showing (a)<br />

the unstructured mesh employed, (b) the computed total magnetic field after 150<br />

cycles.<br />

Scattering Width, dB<br />

Viewing Angle, degrees<br />

Fig. 14. Simulation of scattering of a plane TE wave by a PEC cavity showing<br />

a comparison of the scattering width distributions computed, after 150 cycles, by<br />

FETD, the co-volume scheme <strong>and</strong> a FEFD method.<br />

7 Conclusions<br />

The numerical performance of an explicit unstructured mesh co-volume time<br />

domain scheme <strong>and</strong> a st<strong>and</strong>ard finite element time domain method has been<br />

compared for a number of electromagnetic wave propagation <strong>and</strong> scattering<br />

examples. To ensure the efficiency of the co-volume approach, the smooth<br />

Delaunay–Voronoï dual meshes that are used are generated using a stitching<br />

method. The numerical examples that have been considered show that<br />

the co-volume method is 30–60 times faster than the finite element method<br />

for two-dimensional scattering problems. In addition, the co-volume method

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