Staircase-free finite-difference time-domain formulation for general materials in complex geometries

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 749-756

  Dridi, K H ^a   Hesthaven, Jan S ^b   Ditkowski, Adi ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational models in electromagnetics and optics; Finite difference time domain methods; Numerical solution of partial differential equations; Staircase; Time domain solution of Maxwell's equations

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHODS;

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS;

EID: 0035329254     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.929629     Document Type: Article

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