The nonstandard finite-difference time-domain (NS-FDTD) method, using a rectangular parallelepipeds structured grid, has been proposed to overcome the dispersion and anisotropic errors of the FDTD method. However, the numerical dispersion and the stability condition have not been examined. Furthermore, the method has been defined only in the isotropic grids. This paper investigates the numerical dispersion and the stability condition of the three-dimensional NS-FDTD method for isotropic and nonisotropic grids. The method is compared with the FDTD method. As a result, this method demonstrates highly accurate characteristics and high Courant stability condition.
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Kashiwa et al. (2002) studied this question.