Asymptotic and numerical analysis for Holland and Simpson’s thin wire formalism

Abstract: In the context of simulation of electromagnetic propagation, the thin wire formalism of Holland and Simpson allows one to deal with scattering by perfectly conducting thin wires by coupling a standard FDTD method with a discrete 1D wave equation ruling the current inside the wires. This method can be very accurate, but it involves a fitting parameter that requires careful calibration. We propose a consistency analysis and derive a formula for the calibration of this parameter in the case of a simplified 2D analogue of the method of Holland and Simpson. Our proof relies on the observation that this method is actually a hidden version of the singular function method well known in the context of elliptic equations in domains with a singular boundary. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]