Transmission-line modeling (TLM) based upon unstructured tetrahedral meshes

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 6 I, 2005, Pages 1919-1928

  Sewell, Phillip ^a   Benson, Trevor M ^a   Christopoulos, Christos ^a   Thomas, David W P ^a   Vukovic, Ana ^a   Wykes, James G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Simulation; Transmission line modeling (TLM); Unstructured meshes

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; HARMONIC GENERATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

DELAUNAY MESHES; REFLECTION COEFFICENTS; TRANSMISSION-LINE MODELING (TLM); UNSTRUCTURED MESHES;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 23144441139     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.848078     Document Type: Article

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