A revised formulation of modal absorbing and matched modal source boundary conditions for the efficient FDTD analysis of waveguide structures

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 50-59

  Alimenti, Federico ^a   Mezzanotte, Paolo ^a   Roselli, Luca ^a   Sorrentino, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fdtd method; Generalized scattering matrix; Matched modal source; Modal absorbing boundary conditions; Waveguide circuits; Waveguide impulse response; Waveguide transitions

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GENERALIZED SCATTERING MATRIX; MATCHED MODAL SOURCE; MODAL ABSORBING BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; WAVEGUIDE CIRCUITS; WAVEGUIDE IMPULSE RESPONSE; WAVEGUIDE TRANSITIONS;

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; REFLECTION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0033882247     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.817471     Document Type: Article

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