Finite difference time domain simulation of the earth-ionosphere resonant cavity: Schumann resonances

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1535-1541

  Soriano, Antonio ^a   Navarro, Enrique A ^b   Paul, Dominique L ^c   Portí, Jorge A ^a   Morente, Juan A ^a   Craddock, Ian J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Earth ionosphere waveguide; Extremely low frequency (ELF); Finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods; Propagation

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

EARTH IONOSPHERE WAVEGUIDE; EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCY (ELF); FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

CAVITY RESONATORS;

EID: 18844362411     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.844415     Document Type: Article

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