A weighted-average scheme for accurate FDTD modeling of electromagnetic wave propagation in conductive media

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 302-305

  Velarde, Luis F ^a   Pereda, José A ^a   Vegas, Ángel ^a   Gonzalez, Oscar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conductive media; Finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods; Numerical dispersion; Stability

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CONDUCTIVE MEDIA; NEUMANN METHOD; NUMERICAL DISPERSION; WEIGHTED-AVERAGE SCHEME;

WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 11944254677     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2004.838830     Document Type: Article

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