The treatment of geometrically small structures in FDTD by the modification of assigned material parameters

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 4129-4136

  Railton, Chris J ^a   Paul, Dominique L ^a   Craddock, Ian J ^a   Hilton, Geoffrey S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; INTEGRATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MICROSTRIP LINES; PERMITTIVITY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD); MICROSTRIP PATCH ANTENNA; MODIFIED ASSIGNED MATERIAL PARAMETERS (MAMPS); WIRE TRANSMISSION LINES;

MICROSTRIP ANTENNAS;

EID: 29444446389     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.860008     Document Type: Article

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