Finite-Difference Solution of Maxwell's Equations in Generalized Nonorthogonal Coordinates

Abstract

This article describes a time-domain finite-difference algorithm for solving Maxwell's equations in generalized nonorthogonal coordinates. We believe this approach would be most useful for applications where a uniform, uncurved, but oblique, meshing scheme could be applied in lieu of staircasing. This algorithm is similar to conventional leapfrog-differencing schemes, but now an additional leapfrogging between covariant and contravariant field representations becomes necessary.