A Study of the Nonorthogonal FDTD Method Versus the Conventional FDTD Technique for Computing Resonant Frequencies of Cylindrical Cavities

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 741-746

  Harms, Paul H ^a   Lee, Jin Fa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS--APPLICATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CONVERGENCE STUDY; CYLINDRICAL CAVITIES; DOMINANT RESONANT FREQUENCY COMPUTATION; NONORTHOGONAL FINITE-DIFFERENCE-TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHOD;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY;

EID: 0026852574     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.127524     Document Type: Article

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