Practical 3-D contour/staircase treatment of metals in FDTD

IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 146-148

  Anderson, J ^a   Okoniewski, M ^a,b   Stuchly, S S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b IEEE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; METALS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BOOKKEEPING COMPLEXITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MESH GENERATION; STAIRCASE LOGIC; STAIRCASE REPRESENTATION; SUBCELL FORMULAS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS;

EID: 0030106806     PISSN: 10518207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/75.481095     Document Type: Article

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