High-order DGTD methods for dispersive Maxwell's equations and modelling of silver nanowire coupling

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 308-325

  Ji, Xia ^a   Cai, Wei ^b   Zhang, Pingwen ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Discontinuous Galerkin time domain (DGTD); Maxwell's equations; Nanowires; Plasmon; Resonance

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; RESONANCE; SILVER; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WIRE;

DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN TIME-DOMAIN; PLASMON RESONANT; SILVER NANOWIRES;

GALERKIN METHODS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; GALERKIN METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; RESONANCE; SILVER; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WIRE;

EID: 33846033965     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1762     Document Type: Article

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