Development of a multigrid FDTD code for three-dimensional applications

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1512-1517

  White, Mikel J ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Fdtd methods

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COURANT NUMBER; CYLINDRICAL MULTIMODE MICROWAVE CAVITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; INTEGER REFINEMENT FACTOR;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0031258135     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.633859     Document Type: Article

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