Analysis and compensation of numerical dispersion in the FDTD method for layered, anisotropic media

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1174-1184

  Moss, C D ^a   Teixeira, Fernando L ^b   Kong, Jin Au ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Buried object detection; Finite difference time domain (FDTD); Numerical analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ERRORS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BURIED OBJECT DETECTION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION;

EID: 0036761297     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2002.802092     Document Type: Article

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