A Field Theoretical Comparison of FDTD and TLM

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 1995, Pages 1935-1950

  Krumpholz, Michael ^a   Huber, Christian ^b   Russer, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR HÖCHSTFREQUENZTECHNIK   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ESTIMATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; STATE SPACE METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DISPERSION ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; TRANSMISSION LINE MATRIX; WAVE AMPLITUDES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION;

EID: 0029359360     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.402284     Document Type: Article

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