Three-Dimensional Contour FDTD Modeling of Scattering from Single and Multiple Bodies

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 1993, Pages 1703-1708

  Jurgens, T G ^a   Taflove, A ^b  

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CONTOUR MODELING; CURVED MEDIA BOUNDARIES; SUBCELL MODELING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0027809161     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.273315     Document Type: Article

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