A higher order (2,4) scheme for reducing dispersion in FDTD algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 160-165

  Lan, Kang ^a   Liu, Yaowu ^b   Lin, Weigan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Absorbing boundary conditions; Electromagnetic scattering; FDTD method; Numerical dispersion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ABSORBING BOUNDARY CONDITIONS (ABC); FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) SCHEMES;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

EID: 0032662455     PISSN: 00189375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/15.765109     Document Type: Article

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