A Simple Way to Model Curved Metal Boundaries in FDTD Algorithm Avoiding Staircase Approximation

IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 1995, Pages 267-269

  Mezzanotte, Paolo ^a   Roselli, Luca ^a   Sorrentino, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CALCULATIONS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; SURFACES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CARTESIAN COORDINATE; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN; STAIRCASE APPROXIMATION;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0029357336     PISSN: 10518207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/75.401071     Document Type: Article

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