Time-dependent numerical method with boundary-conforming curvilinear coordinates applied to wave interactions with prototypical antennas

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-36

  Villamizar, Vianey ^a   Rojas, Otilio ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic scattering; Optical theorem; Orthogonal grid generation; Time dependent numerical method

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; WAVEGUIDES;

CURVILINEAR COORDINATE; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; GRID GENERATION; OPTICAL THEOREM; ORTHOGONAL GRID; ORTHOGONAL GRID GENERATION; TIME DEPENDENT; TIME-DEPENDENT NUMERICAL METHOD; TIME-DEPENDENT TECHNIQUE; WAVE INTERACTIONS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 0037139616     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcph.2001.6987     Document Type: Article

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