Perfectly Matched Layer (PML) for computational electromagnetics

Synthesis Lectures on Computational Electromagnetics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-120

  Bérenger, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a Centre d'Analyse de Defense   (France)

Author keywords

Absorbing boundary conditions; Discretized space; Evanescent wave; FDTD; Finite difference; Finite element; Free space; Numerical method; Perfectly matched layer; PML; Stretched coordinate

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ABSORBING BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DISCRETIZED SPACE; EVANESCENT WAVE; FREE SPACE; PERFECTLY MATCHED LAYER; STRETCHED COORDINATE;

NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33847114943     PISSN: 19321252     EISSN: 19321716     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2200/S00030ED1V01Y200605CEM008     Document Type: Article

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