Signal-processing techniques to reduce the sinusoidal steady-state error in the FDTD method

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 585-593

  Gürel, Levent ^a,b   Oǧuz, Uǧur ^b  

^a IEEE

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL FILTERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ERROR CORRECTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NYQUIST DIAGRAMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ALIASING; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN; INCIDENT FIELD ARRAY; SMOOTHING WINDOWS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0033717343     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.843673     Document Type: Article

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