A Three-Dimensional FDTD Algorithm in Curvilinear Coordinates

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 1991, Pages 1463-1471

  Fusco, Mario A ^a   Smith, Mary V ^b   Gordon, Lawrence W ^a  

^a LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^b Systems Control Corp ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; SURFACES;

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM; CURVILINEAR COORDINATES; MOMENT METHOD; SINGULAR LINE PROCESSING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL FDTD ALGORITHM;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 0026238009     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.97377     Document Type: Article

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