Use of pml absorbing layers for the truncation of the head model in cellular telephone simulations

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 48, Issue 1 PART 2, 2000, Pages 2033-2039

  Lazzi, Gianluca ^a   Gandhi, Om P ^a,b   Sullivan, Dennis M ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular telephone; Dosimetry, electromagneticfield effects; Fdtd methods

Indexed keywords

ABSORBING BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; PERFECT MATCHED LAYER; SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034314402     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.884192     Document Type: Article

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