Boundary conditions and use of symmetries in electromagnetic waveguide sparse matrix finite element method problems

International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields

Volumn 13, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 147-154

  Selleri, S ^a   Zoboli, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVEGUIDE; SPARSE MATRIX;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0034158799     PISSN: 08943370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1204(200003/06)13:2/3<147::AID-JNM352>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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