A stable subgridding algorithm and its application to eigenvalue problems

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 620-628

  Krishnaiah, K M ^a,b   Railton, Chris J ^b  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fdtd methods

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESONATORS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DIELECTRIC RESONATORS; SUBGRIDDING ALGORITHM;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY;

EID: 0032675742     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.763164     Document Type: Article

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