A Theoretical Study of Numerical Absorbing Boundary Conditions

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 478-487

  Stupfel, Bruno ^a   Mittra, Raj ^b  

^a CEA DIF   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGQUIST-MAJDA BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; NUMERICAL ABSORBING BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; REFLECTION COEFFICIENT;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CALCULATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0029307219     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.384192     Document Type: Article

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