The unconditionally stable crank-nicolson FDTD method for three-dimensional maxwell's equations

Microwave and Optical Technology Letters

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1619-1622

  Yang, Y ^a   Chen, R S ^a   Yung, Edward K N ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

ADI FDTD; Crank Nicolson scheme; FDTD

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ADI-FDTD; CRANK-NICOLSON SCHEME; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD);

MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

EID: 33745765439     PISSN: 08952477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mop.21684     Document Type: Article

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