Transmission-line modeling using unstructured triangular meshes

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1490-1497

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Simulation; Transmission line modeling (TLM); Unstructured meshes

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY (EMC); TRANSMISSION-LINE MODELING (TLM); UNSTRUCTURED MESHES;

ELECTRIC LINES;

EID: 2542474209     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2004.827027     Document Type: Article

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