A Comprehensive Study of Numerical Anisotropy and Dispersion in 3-D TLM Meshes

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 1173-1181

  Berini, Pierre ^a   Wu, Ke ^a  

^a POLY GRAMES RESEARCH CENTER   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAIN SYMMETRICAL CONDENSED NODES; HYBRID SYMMETRICAL CONDENSED NODES; NUMERICAL ANISOTROPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL TRANSMISSION LINE MATRIX MESHES;

ANISOTROPY; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

EID: 0029308533     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.382081     Document Type: Article

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