The treatment of thin wire and coaxial structures in lossless and lossy media in FDTD by the modification of assigned material parameters

IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 654-660

  Railton, Chris J ^b   Paul, Dominique L ^a,b   Dumanli, Sema ^b,c  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c ASELSAN INC   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Coaxial transmission lines; Finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods; Wire grids

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC FIELDS; COAXIAL TRANSMISSION LINES; MICROSTRIP STRUCTURES; WIRE GRIDS;

ANTENNA FEEDERS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MICROSTRIP DEVICES;

ELECTRIC WIRE;

EID: 33947255581     PISSN: 00189375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEMC.2006.884452     Document Type: Article

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