A Staggered Fourth-Order Accurate Explicit Finite Difference Scheme for the Time-Domain Maxwell's Equations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 286-315

  Yefet, Amir ^a   Petropoulos, Peter G ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Maxwell's equations, staggered finite difference schemes, fourth order schemes, FD TD scheme

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DIELECTRIC INTERFACE; DIFFERENCE OPERATORS; EXPLICIT FINITE DIFFERENCES; FINITE DIFFERENCE SCHEME; FOURTH-ORDER; FOURTH-ORDER SCHEME; MAXWELL EQUATION, STAGGERED FINITE-DIFFERENCE SCHEME, FOURTH-ORDER SCHEME, FD-TD SCHEME; METAL DIELECTRICS; STAGGERED FINITE DIFFERENCE METHODS; TIME-DOMAIN MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

EID: 0000522244     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2001.6691     Document Type: Article

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