FDTD improvement by dielectric subgrid resolution

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 46, Issue 12 PART 1, 1998, Pages 2166-2169

  Marrocco, Gaetano ^a   Sabbadini, Marco ^b   Bardati, Fernando ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dielectric inhomogeneity; FDTD method; Subgridding

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DIELECTRIC SUBGRID RESOLUTION;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0032296635     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.739302     Document Type: Article

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