Analytic field propagation TFSF boundary for FDTD problems involving planar interfaces: PECs, TE, and TM

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2531-2542

  Schneider, John B ^a,b   Abdijalilov, Kakhkhor ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Washington State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods

Indexed keywords

FDTD GRIDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) METHODS; TOTAL FIELD SCATTERED FIELD (TFSF) BOUNDARY; TRANSMISSION COEFFICIENTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 33947121566     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.880757     Document Type: Article

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