An Analysis of New and Existing FDTD methods for isotropie cold plasma and a method for improving their accuracy

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 392-400

  Cummer, Steven A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fdtd methods; Plasmas

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COLLISIONAL PLASMAS; EXPONENTIAL FITTING; ISOTROPIC COLD PLASMA; RECURSIVE CONVOLUTION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION IN PLASMA;

EID: 0031099675     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.558654     Document Type: Article

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