Unstructured grid-based discontinuous Galerkin method for broadband electromagnetic simulations

Journal of Scientific Computing

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 405-431

  Kabakian, Adour V ^a   Shankar, Vijaya ^a   Hall, William F ^a  

^a HYPERCOMP INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadband; Discontinuous Galerkin; Maxwell's equations; Time domain electromagnetics; Unstructured grid

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS (CEM); FAST MULTIPOLE METHODS (FMM); TIME DOMAIN ELECTROMAGNETICS; UNSTRUCTURED GRID;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GALERKIN METHODS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; POLYNOMIALS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0842311152     PISSN: 08857474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JOMP.0000025932.17082.18     Document Type: Article

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