Numerical Stability and Numerical Dispersion of a Compact 2-D/FDTD Method Used for the Dispersion Analysis of Waveguides

IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 3-5

  Cangellaris, Andreas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COURANT NUMBER; DISPERSION EQUATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FDTD METHOD;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0027186730     PISSN: 10518207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/75.180672     Document Type: Article

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