A uniformly stable conformal FDTD-method in Cartesian grids

International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 127-141

  Zagorodnov, Igor A ^a   Schuhmann, Rolf ^a   Weiland, Thomas ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conformal FDTD method; Finite integration technique; Staircase

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INTERPOLATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CONVENTIONAL STAIRCASE APPROACH;

ELECTRODYNAMICS;

EID: 0037341381     PISSN: 08943370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnm.488     Document Type: Article

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