A general formulation for connecting sources and passive lumped-circuit elements across multiple 3-D FDTD cells

IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 85-87

  Durney, Carl H ^a   Sui, Wenquan ^b   Christensen, Douglas A ^a   Zhu, Jingyi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MICROSTRIP LINES; PASSIVE NETWORKS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSISTORS;

CONDUCTION CURRENT; CONVECTION CURRENT; MULTIPLE THREE DIMENSIONAL FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN CELLS; PASSIVE LUMPED CIRCUIT ELEMENTS;

LUMPED PARAMETER NETWORKS;

EID: 0030086174     PISSN: 10518207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/75.481997     Document Type: Article

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