Analysis of the Numerical Error Caused by the Stair-Stepped Approximation of a Conducting Boundary in FDTD Simulations of Electromagnetic Phenomena

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 1991, Pages 1518-1525

  Cangellaris, Andreas C ^a   Wright, Diana B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - ERROR ANALYSIS;

FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; SAW-TOOTH CONDUCTING SURFACES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 0026237483     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.97384     Document Type: Article

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