A fast analysis of microwave devices by the combined unifrontal/multifrontal solver for unsymmetric sparse matrices

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 76-81

  Chen, R S ^a   Wang, D X ^a   Yung, Edward K N ^b   Jin, J M ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element method; PML; Unifrontal multifrontal method; Waveguide devices

Indexed keywords

CONJUGATE-GRADIENT METHOD; MULTIFRONTAL METHOD; PERFECTLY MATCHED LAYER; PRECONDITIONED CONJUGATE-GRADIENT METHOD; SUCCESSIVE OVERRELAXATION; UNIFRONTAL METHOD;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRADIENT METHODS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHASE SHIFTERS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES; WAVEGUIDES;

MICROWAVE DEVICES;

EID: 0037026977     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mop.10521     Document Type: Article

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