Plane waves in FDTD simulations and a nearly perfect total-field/scattered-field boundary

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3280-3287

  Schneider, John B ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VECTORS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) METHODS; TOTAL FIELD SCATTERED FIELD BOUNDARY FORMULATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 11144347720     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.836403     Document Type: Article

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