Tools for radio-wave propagation simulations in planetary science
Abstract
As radar soundings become common in planetary science, new needs in simulating radio-wave propagation appear. This article takes the example of the radio experiment Consert on-board Rosetta to introduce the Pseudo Spectral Time Domain (PSTD) algorithm which was first presented by Liu (1997). This algorithm aims at solving the Maxwell equations as the well known Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) but is less memory and CPU demanding to achieve accuracy computations.
- Publication:
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Earth-like Planets and Moons
- Pub Date:
- October 2002
- Bibcode:
- 2002ESASP.514..331P
- Keywords:
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- Simulations of Radio-wave Propagation;
- Maxwell Equations;
- Pseudo-spectral Time Domain Method