Numerical properties of staggered finite-difference solutions of Maxwell's equations for ground-penetrating radar modeling

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 45-48

  Bergmann, Tim ^a   Robertsson, Johan O A ^a   Holliger, Klaus ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC SURVEY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; MAXWELL'S EQUATION;

COURANT CRITERION; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; ONE DIMENSIONAL SYNTHETIC RADARGRAMS; SPATIAL SAMPLING; ACCURATE MODELING; DIFFERENCE APPROXIMATION; DIFFERENCE SCHEMES; DISPERSION CHARACTERISTICS; FINITE DIFFERENCE SCHEME; FINITE-DIFFERENCE SOLUTION; NUMERICAL PROPERTIES;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; RADAR; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; DISPERSION (WAVES); GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; STABILITY; STABILITY CRITERIA;

GEOPHYSICS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

EID: 0029668394     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95GL03515     Document Type: Article

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