An equivalent electric field source for wideband FDTD simulations of waveguide discontinuities

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 27-29

  Wang, Shumin ^a   Teixeira, Fernando L ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

FDTD methods; Source; Waveguide

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

WAVEGUIDE DISCONTINUITIES;

WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 0037249784     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2002.807714     Document Type: Article

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