Transient application of sub-cell wire and slot models to unstructured, tetrahedral-element meshes

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium, 1998 Digest - Antennas: Gateways to the Global Network - Held in conjunction with: USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting

Volumn 1, Issue , 1998, Pages 592-595

  Riley, Douglas J ^a   Turner, C David ^a   Kotulski, Joseph D ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; RADIO; ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC WIRE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CELL COUNT; EXPLICIT ALGORITHMS; SMALL FEATURES; SUB-CELLS; TETRAHEDRAL ELEMENTS; TIME STEP; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY;

FINITE DIFFERENCE-TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) METHOD; SOFTWARE PACKAGE VOLMAX;

EID: 0031644698     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APS.1998.699209     Document Type: Conference Paper

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