Discrete green's function formulation of the FDTD method and its application in antenna modeling

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 1 II, 2005, Pages 339-346

  Ma, Weili ^a   Rayner, Mark R ^a   Parini, Clive G ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absorbing boundary condition (ABC); Discrete Green's function (DGF); Finite difference time domain (FDTD) method

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONVOLUTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VECTORS; WAVE EQUATIONS; Z TRANSFORMS;

ABSORBING BOUNDARY CONDITION; ANTENNA MODELLING; DISCRETE GREEN FUNCTION (DGF); FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) METHOD;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 13244268414     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.838797     Document Type: Article

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