Efficient implementations of the Crank-Nicolson scheme for the finite-difference time-domain method

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2275-2283

  Sun, Guilin ^a,b,d   Trueman, Christopher W ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^d Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computational electromagnetics; Crank Nicolson (CN) scheme; Finite difference time domain (FDTD) method; Numerical anisotropy; Numerical dispersion; Unconditionally stable method

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS; CRANK-NICOLSON (CN) SCHEME; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHOD; NUMERICAL ANISOTROPY; NUMERICAL DISPERSION;

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATRIX ALGEBRA; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

EID: 33646747013     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2006.873639     Document Type: Article

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