High spatial order finite element method to solve Maxwell's equations in time domain

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2889-2899

  Pernet, Sebastien ^a,b   Ferrieres, Xavier ^a   Cohen, Gary ^c  

^a Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales   (France)

^b European Centre for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computation   (France)

^c INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Finite difference method; Finite element method (FEM); Finite volume method; High spatial order method; Maxwell equations

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHOD; HIGH SPATIAL ORDER METHOD; MASS MATRIX;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY;

EID: 27644583263     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.856046     Document Type: Article

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