A parallel FFT accelerated transient field-circuit simulator

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2851-2865

  Yilmaz, Ali E ^a,b   Jin, Jian Ming ^a,b,c,d   Michielssen, Eric ^a,b,e,f  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^e Center for Computational Electromagnetics   (United States)

^f International Union of Radio Scientists

Author keywords

Microwave circuits; Nonlinear circuits; Parallel processing; Time domain integral equations; Transient analysis

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED MEMORY-CLUSTER; NONLINEAR CIRCUITS; TIME-DOMAIN INTEGRAL EQUATION; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

MICROWAVE CIRCUITS;

EID: 27744601519     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2005.854260     Document Type: Conference Paper

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