Reduction of numerical dispersion in FDTD method through artificial anisotropy

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 48, Issue , 2000, Pages 582-588

  Juntunen, Jaakko S ^a   Tsiboukis, Theodoros D ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fdtd method; Numerical dispersion

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NUMERICAL ANISOTROPY; NUMERICAL DISPERSION; SYMMETRICAL CONDENSED NODE TRANSMISSION LINE MATRIX METHOD;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FREQUENCIES; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

EID: 0034172632     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.842030     Document Type: Article

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