Some fundamental characteristics of the one-dimensional alternate-direction-implicit finite-difference time-domain method

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 52, Issue 1 I, 2004, Pages 46-52

  Sun, Guilin ^a   Trueman, Christopher W ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alternate direction implicit (ADI) method; Computational electromagnetics; Finite difference time domain (FDTD) method; Numerical dispersion; Numerical dissipation; Numerical growth; Nyquist criterion

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NYQUIST DIAGRAMS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ALTERNATE-DIRECTION IMPLICIT METHOD; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; NUMERICAL DISPERSION; NUMERICAL DISSIPATION; NUMERICAL GROWTH; NYQUIST LIMIT;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

EID: 1242308458     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2003.821230     Document Type: Article

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