Relative Accuracy of Several Finite-Difference Time-Domain Methods in Two and Three Dimensions

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 1993, Pages 1732-1737

  Shlager, Kurt L ^a   Maloney, James G ^b   Ray, Scott L ^c   Peterson, Andrew F ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c DOW AGROSCIENCES LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DISPERSION (WAVES); FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CHEN'S APPROACH; FLOATING POINT OPERATIONS; RELATIVE ACCURACY;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0027867271     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.273296     Document Type: Article

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