Stability of the FDTD algorithm on nonorthogonal grids related to the spatial interpolation scheme

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 34, Issue 5 PART 1, 1998, Pages 2751-2754

  Schuhmann, Rolf ^a   Weiland, Thomas ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic analysis; Fdtd methods; Nonorthogonal coordinates; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000953190     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/20.717639     Document Type: Article

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