Incorporation of the waveguide feed and cavity wall losses into a Cartesian/cylindrical hybrid finite-difference time domain analysis of a geometrically-composite microwave applicator

Journal of Microwave Power and Electromagnetic Energy

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 110-118

  Al Rizzo, H M ^a   Tranquilla, J M ^b   Ma, Feng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

^b EMR Microwave Technology Corporation   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

CAVITY WALL LOSSES; SURFACE IMPEDANCE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

MICROWAVE HEATING;

EID: 0033701586     PISSN: 08327823     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08327823.2000.11688425     Document Type: Article

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