Implementation and application of a FD-TD simulation tool for the analysis of complex 3D structures

Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 160-167

  Thomas, Kevin ^a   Haussmann, Gary ^b   Piket May, Melinda ^b   Gravrok, Roger J ^c  

^a CRAY INC   (United States)

^b University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^c Sequent Computer Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EFFICIENCY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC ANALYSIS;

ELECTROMAGNETISM;

EID: 0032119780     PISSN: 10544887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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