FDTD BASED SECOND-ORDER ACCURATE LOCAL MESH REFINEMENT METHOD FOR MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS IN TWO SPACE DIMENSIONS ¤

Communications in Mathematical Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 497-513

  Zakharian, A R ^a   Brio, M ^a   Moloney, J V ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Amr; Computational electrodynamics; Fdtd; Grid interfaces; Maxwell's equations; Mesh refinement; Numerical simulation; Optical waveguide; Subgridding

Indexed keywords

EID: 21844475338     PISSN: 15396746     EISSN: 19450796     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4310/CMS.2004.v2.n3.a8     Document Type: Article

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