Fast transient simulation of power distribution networks containing dispersion based on parallel-distributed leapfrog algorithm

IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences

Volumn E90-A, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 388-397

  Watanabe, Takayuki ^a   Tanji, Yuichi ^b   Kubota, Hidemasa ^c   Asai, Hideki ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHIZUOKA   (Japan)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SHARP CORPORATION   (Japan)

^d SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Circuit simulation; Frequency dependent dispersion; Leapfrog algorithm; Parallel computation; Power integrity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SIMULATORS;

CIRCUIT SIMULATORS; FAST TRANSIENT SIMULATION METHOD; LEAPFROG ALGORITHM; LINEAR CIRCUITS; POWER DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS (PDN);

ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33847118014     PISSN: 09168508     EISSN: 17451337     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e90-a.2.388     Document Type: Article

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