An Implementation of the Vectorial Finite Element Analysis of Anisotropic Waveguides Through a General-Purpose PDE Software

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 1994, Pages 1499-1505

  Cvetkovic, Srba R ^a   Zhac, An Ping ^a   Punjani, Minaz ^b  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b University of London Computer Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTER AIDED NETWORK ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDES;

PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE PDE/PROTRAN; SOFTWARE PACKAGE WAVEGIDE; VECTORIAL FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS;

DIELECTRIC WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0028483810     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.297812     Document Type: Article

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