Educational software for wave propagation phenomena using MATLAB GUIs and FDTD method

The aim of the work presented here is to develop an accurate and cheap electromagnetic simulation software that provides a virtual laboratory for studying the wave propagation proprieties. The numerical method used is the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) that has been successfully applied in many engineering fields. In addition, an easy-to-use MATLAB GUI handles all the parameters of the FDTD simulation and computes theoretical values of characteristics parameters of the wave propagation in different mediums. The software allows understanding the phenomena of electromagnetic wave propagation in a progressive manner starting with the case of one dimension to three dimensions, and finally it allows approaching particular cases like the metamaterials.