Optimized finite-difference time-domain methods based on the (2, 4) stencil

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 3 I, 2005, Pages 832-841

  Sun, Guilin ^a   Trueman, Christopher W ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computational electromagnetics; Finite difference time domain (FDTD) method; Higher order method; Numerical anisotropy; Numerical dispersion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHOD; HIGHER ORDER METHODS; NUMERICAL ANISOTROPY; NUMERICAL DISPERSION;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

EID: 15844407978     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2004.842507     Document Type: Article

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