Analysis of cylindrical transmission lines with the finite-difference time-domain method

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 509-512

  Dib, Nihad ^a   Weller, Thomas ^a   Scardelletti, Max ^a   Imparato, Michael ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CIRCULAR WAVEGUIDES; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

MULTICONDUCTOR TRANSMISSION LINES;

MICROWAVE ANTENNAS;

EID: 0032664995     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.754886     Document Type: Article

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