The Implementation of Time-Domain Diakoptics in the FDTD Method

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 1994, Pages 2149-2155

  Huang, Tian Wei ^a   Houshmand, Bijan ^a   Itoh, Tatsuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

ABSORBING BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; INCIDENT WAVES; SOFTWARE PACKAGE MICROWAVE SPICE;

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY;

EID: 0028548074     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.330131     Document Type: Article

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