Development of a general symmetrical condensed node for the TLM method

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 44, Issue 12 PART 1, 1996, Pages 2129-2135

  Trenkic, Vladica ^a   Christopoulos, Christos ^a   Benson, Trevor M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; NUMERICAL METHODS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

GENERAL SYMMETRICAL CONDENSED NODES (GSCN); TRANSMISSION LINE MODELING (TLM);

MICROSTRIP LINES;

EID: 0030410305     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.556439     Document Type: Article

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