Conservative space-time mesh refinement methods for the FDTD solution of Maxwell's equations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 9-35

  Collino, F ^a   Fouquet, T ^b   Joly, Patrick ^c  

^a CERFACS   (France)

^b EDF R AND D   (France)

^c INRIA ROCQUENCOURT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEAR SYSTEMS; MESH GENERATION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ADDITIONAL COSTS; CFL-CONDITION; COARSE GRID; DISCRETE ENERGIES; FINE GRIDS; MESH REFINEMENT; REFINEMENT METHODS; SPACETIME; SYMMETRIC POSITIVE DEFINITE LINEAR SYSTEMS; TIME STEP;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

EID: 25444469411     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2005.03.035     Document Type: Article

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