An Artificially-Synthesized Absorbing Medium for the Truncation of FDTD Lattices

IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 128-130

  Yu, Wenhua ^a   Werner, Douglas H ^b   Mittra, Raj ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorbing boundary condition; FDTD; wave guide

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) LATTICES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0034171973     PISSN: 10518207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/75.846921     Document Type: Article

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