Stability and numerical dispersion analysis of a fourth-order accurate FDTD method

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2525-2530

  Xiao, Fei ^a   Tang, Xiaohong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Jury test; Numerical dispersion; Routh Hurwitz test; Stability

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM STABILITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BACKWARD DIFFERENTIATION; JURY TESTS; NUMERICAL DISPERSIONS; ROUTH-HURWITZ TESTS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION;

EID: 33947136739     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.880734     Document Type: Article

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