An analytical and numerical analysis of several locally conformai FDTD schemes

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 56-66

  Railton, Chris J ^a   Schneider, John B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Washington State University   (United States)

Author keywords

FDTD methods

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; METALS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHODS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032784757     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.740077     Document Type: Article

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