A spectral-element time-domain solution of maxwell's equations

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 673-680

  Liu, Yaxing ^a   Lee, Joon Ho ^a   Xiao, Tian ^a   Liu, Qing H ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gauss Lobatto Legendre (GLL) polynomials: Runge Kutta method; Spectral element time domain (SETD) method; Spectral method

Indexed keywords

GAUSS-LOBATTO-LEGENDRE (GLL) POLYNOMIALS; GEOMETRIC FLEXIBILITY; SPECTRAL ELEMENT TIME-DOMAIN (SETD) METHOD; SPECTRAL METHOD;

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POLYNOMIALS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

EID: 33645965272     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mop.21440     Document Type: Article

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