A Floquet-Bloch decomposition of Maxwell's equations applied to homogenization

Multiscale Modeling and Simulation

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 149-171

  Sjöberg, Daniel ^a   Engström, Christian ^a   Kristensson, Gerhard ^a   Wall, David J N ^b   Wellander, Niklas ^c  

^a LUND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bloch waves; Eigenvalue problem; Homogenization; Maxwell's equations

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; VECTORS;

ARBITRARY WAVE VECTOR; BLOCH WAVES; FLOQUET-BLOCH DECOMPOSITION; HOMOGENIZATION; MATERIAL PARAMETERS; STEADY STATE FIELDS;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

EID: 33644684621     PISSN: 15403459     EISSN: 15403467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/040607034     Document Type: Article

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