
AUGUST 2026 | VOLUME 74 | NUMBER 8
The primary objective of this Special Issue is to showcase recent advances in analytical, numerical, and multiphysics computational methods for complex electromagnetic media. By bringing together contributions spanning theory, methodology, and applications, the issue aims to address the growing challenges associated with novel materials, multiscale structures, coupled physical phenomena, and emerging electromagnetic technologies, while promoting accurate, efficient, and physically consistent simulation and design methodologies.
Guest Editorial Special Issue on Advanced Computational Methods and Multiphysics Simulation for Complex Electromagnetic Media K. Li, V. Okhmatovski, A. Z. Elsherbeni, and Y. Zhou
A Stable Subgridding Technique Based on ADE FDTD for Problems with Drude Media W. Shi, J. Wang, and W.-Y. Yin
Subcell FDTD Methods for Accurate Modeling of Moving Conducting and Dielectric Interfaces T. Xu and C. D. Sarris
An Accurate Weighted Parameter Enhanced Conformal Method for Dispersive FDTD Method Z. Li, M. Li, J. Wang, G. Zhu, X. Wu, Z. Huang, and K. Niu
Z-Transform Based Divergence-Preserving ADI-FDTD Method and Its Integration with Subgrid Techniques for GPR Simulations G. Hou, G. Wang, G. Xie, X. Ren, Y. Li, Z. Huang, and A. Z. Elsherbeni
An Improved ADI-FDTD Analysis of Shielding Effectiveness for an Enclosure with Thin Apertures and Wires under Arbitrary Incidence K. Niu, W. Ding, J. Wang, Z. Chen, C. Yang, X. Ren, Z. Huang, and X. Wu
An Accurate Conformal Weakly Conditionally Stable FDTD Scheme and Its Application on Electromagnetic Shielding Effectiveness Analysis K. Niu, J. Wang, J. Zhang, Y. Li, Z. Huang, X. Wu, and A. Z. Elsherbeni
Improvements in Wideband and Robust Lorenz Gauge Potential-Based Finite Element Methods S. T. Elkin, F. Sandoval, and T. E. Roth
A Novel 2D High-Frequency Discontinuous Galerkin Method with Phase Information for Scattering in Non-Smooth Inhomogeneous Media H. Feng, S. Fu, and Q. Zhan
A DG-FEM-GSTC Method for Fast Simulation of Metasurfaces with Strong Normal Polarization K. Wu, K. Shuai, and Q. Ren
Fast Simulation of Resonant and Conformal Metasurfaces Using DGTD-GSTC Method K. Wu and Q. Ren
An Explicit Non-Iterative Discontinuous Galerkin Time-Domain Method with Accurate Treatment for Kerr Nonlinearities R. Xiang, X. Ma, L. Ma, and J. Wang
Time-Domain Finite Element Modeling of Non-linear Materials with Matrix-Free Method Y.-Y. Wang, Q. Zhan, H. Zhang, H. Feng, Y.-D. Wang, B. Sun, R. Bai, and W.-Y. Yin
A Finite-Difference Time-Domain Approach for Conformal Electromagnetic-Thermal Coupled Analysis Z. Li, Z. Chen, X. Wu, M. Li, Z. Huang, S. Cao, and K. Niu
Electro-Thermal-Mechanical Multiphysics Co-Simulation of Chiplet Architecture Based on the FDTD Method W. Zhang, P. Li, X. Ren, Z. Huang, X. Wu, C. Yang, and K. Niu
An Enhanced Electromagnetic-Thermal Multiphysics Coupling Scheme with a Subgridding Algorithm for Chiplet Architecture Simulation X. Huo, J. Shi, G. Zhang, X. Ren, Z. Huang, X. Wu, and K. Niu
An Unconditionally Stable Stochastic CDI-FDTD Method for Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Media with Uncertain Material Properties G. Xie, X. Wu, G. Hou, G. Wang, X. Ren, Y. Li, X. Wu, and Z. Huang
Time-Efficient SETI-DP Implementation with Termination of High-Order Nearly Perfectly Matched Layer for Solving Elastic Wave Problems N. Feng, H. Li, Z. Huang, J. Xu, and Q. Q. Liu
3D Time-Domain Modeling of Semi-Airborne TEM in Complex Media Using an Optimized Block Rational Krylov Method Y. Chen, X. Wang, L. Liu, J. Cai, and Q. Zhan
DGTD Analysis of Cloud-to-Cloud Lightning Pulse Propagation in the Earth-Ionosphere Waveguide J. Dong, B. Wei, L. Li, Q. Yang, Z. Li, and H. Chen
