An explicit fourth-order orthogonal curvilinear staggered-grid FDTD method for Maxwell's equations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 175, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 739-763

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

^a Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Explicit fourth order scheme; FDTD method; Maxwell's equations; Orthogonal curvilinear grid; Staggered scheme; Yee's scheme

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NUMERICAL METHODS;

CARTESIAN GRID; CURVILINEAR GRIDS; EXPLICIT FOURTH-ORDER SCHEMES; FDTD METHOD; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN SCHEMES; FOURTH-ORDER; ORTHOGONAL CURVILINEAR GRID; STAGGERED SCHEMES; STAGGERED-GRIDS; YEE SCHEME;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

EID: 0037138010     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2001.6965     Document Type: Article

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