An efficient method to reduce the numerical dispersion in the ADI-FDTD

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 2295-2301

  Zheng, Hong Xing ^a   Leung, Kwok Wa ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Alternate direction implicit (ADI) method; Artificial anisotropic parameters; Finite difference time domain (FDTD) technique; Numerical dispersion; Phase velocity error

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ALTERNATE-DIRECTION-IMPLICIT (ADI) METHOD; ARTIFICIAL ANISOTROPIC PARAMETERS; NUMERICAL DISPERSION; PHASE VELOCITY ERROR;

FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD;

EID: 23144437200     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.850441     Document Type: Article

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