FDTD large-scale parallel supercomputing and its application to the analysis of radiation characteristics of an antenna mounted on a vehicle

International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 253-261

  Taguchi, Kenji ^a   Uchiya, Masashi ^a   Kashiwa, Tatsuya ^a   Hirayama, Koichi ^a   Kuribayashi, Hiroshi ^b   Komatsu, Satoru ^b  

^a KITAMI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b HONDA R AND D CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antenna; FDTD method; MPI library; Parallel computation; Vehicle

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); GROUND VEHICLES; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS (ITS); MESSAGE-PASSING INTERFACE (MPI);

SUPERCOMPUTERS;

EID: 2342614842     PISSN: 10964290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mmce.20013     Document Type: Article

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