Phase Error Control for FD-TD Methods of Second and Fourth Order Accuracy

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 1994, Pages 859-862

  Petropoulos, Peter G ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; FREQUENCY STABILITY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; PHASE ERROR; TRANSVERSE MAGNETIC POLARIZATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0028447966     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.301709     Document Type: Article

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