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::It is certainly true that the term "finite difference time ___domain" can be (and is) applied to many PDEs besides Maxwell's equations. It is also true the term "FDTD" appears to be most commonly applied to the electromagnetic application. However, I think it would be helpful to readers to make this distinction clear. Perhaps the article could be retitled to "[[Finite-difference time-___domain method (electromagnetism)]]", following the usual Wikipedia disambiguation convention. [[User:Stevenj|— Steven G. Johnson]] ([[User talk:Stevenj|talk]]) 05:40, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
Agreed. I have added edits which demonstrate that the basic method is in fact much older (1928). It is equivalently and often used in scalar wave equation form, so why is this article so heavily focused on the electromagnetics applications? In fact, geophysics (Alterman 1968) and acoustics (Alford 1974) starting using the method in the late 60's early 70's as well. This article seems too biased towards Maxwell's equations and particularly, Allen Taflove's place in that field (too much material is straight out of his textbook). Many of the historical milestones in FDTD (in particular, ADI (much older than Zheng et al), and ABCs (Engquist & Majda (1979) (basis for Mur's ABC), Liao, Lindman (1975))) were not specific to CEM, but formulated by mathematicians. I think the title of this article should reflect the bias towards electromagnetics.
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