An explicit fourth-order staggered finite-difference time-domain method for Maxwell's equations

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 75-98

  Xie, Zhongqiang ^a   Chan, Chi Hou ^b   Zhang, Bo ^a,b  

^a Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Explicit fourth order scheme; FD TD method; Maxwell's equations; Staggered scheme; Yee's scheme

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DIELECTRIC INTERFACES;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

MATHEMATICAL METHOD;

EID: 0036773077     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-0427(02)00394-1     Document Type: Article

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