A general method for FDTD modeling of wave propagation in arbitrary frequency-dispersive media

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 401-410

  Weedon, William H ^a   Rappaport, Carey M ^a  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersive media; Fdtd methods

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; Z TRANSFORMS;

DISCRETIZATION ERROR; FREQUENCY DISPERSIVE MEDIA; PADE MODEL;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0031098158     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.558655     Document Type: Article

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