2603.00351 Fourier Neural Operator as a Surrogate Model for 2D Electromagnetic FDTD Simulation
Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) simulation remains the workhorse for computational electromagnetics, but its computational cost limits its use in real-time applications such as iterative antenna design, electromagnetic compatibility analysis, and photonic device optimization. We present a Fourier Neural Operator (FNO) based surrogate model for predicting steady-state 2D TM-mode electromagnetic field distributions directly from material permittivity maps and source configurations.