A modified FDTD (2, 4) scheme for modeling electrically large structures with high-phase accuracy

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 254-264

  Hadi, Mohammed F ^a,b   Piket May, Melinda ^a,b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b UCB 428   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic fields; Fdtd methods; Modeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VECTORS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHODS; HYBRID ALGORITHM;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY;

EID: 0031076183     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.560344     Document Type: Article

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