Reducing the phase error for finite-difference methods without increasing the order

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1194-1201

  Nehrbass, John W ^a   Jevtic, Jovan O ^a   Lee Robert, ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite difference methods

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) METHOD; HELMHOLTZ EQUATIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY;

EID: 0032137640     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.718575     Document Type: Article

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