Assessment of the performances of first- and second-order time-domain ABC's for the truncation of finite element grids

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 11-16

  Caorsi, Salvatore ^a   Cevini, Gaia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Finite element methods; Mesh truncation; Time domain absorbing boundary conditions; Time domain scattering problems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN METHODS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

FINITE-ELEMENT ALGORITHM; MESH TRUNCATION; TIME-DOMAIN ABSORBING BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; TIME-VARYING SOURCE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SCATTERING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY;

EID: 0038521131     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mop.10957     Document Type: Article

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