A new termination condition for the application of the TLM method to discontinuity problems in closed homogeneous waveguide

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 50, Issue 11 SPEC, 2002, Pages 2513-2518

  Pierantoni, Luca ^a,b   Tomassoni, Cristiano ^c   Rozzi, Tullio ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Absorbing boundary conditions; Modal analysis; Time domain analysis; Transmission line matrix (TLM) method; Waveguide discontinuities

Indexed keywords

ABSORBING BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MODE MATCHING METHOD; TRANSMISSION LINE MATRIX; WAVEGUIDE DISCONTINUITIES;

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MODAL ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

RECTANGULAR WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0036851354     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2002.804622     Document Type: Article

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