The Use of Surface Impedance Concepts in the Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 38-48

  Maloney, James G ^a   Smith, Glenn S ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

FDTD-SIBC FORMULATION; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN METHOD (FDTD) METHOD; LOSSY DIELECTRIC HALF-SPACE; SURFACE IMPEDANCE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS (SIBC); SURFACE IMPEDANCE CONCEPTS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY;

EID: 0026634380     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.123351     Document Type: Article

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