A stable FDTD subgridding method based on finite element formulation with hanging variables

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 3 II, 2007, Pages 907-915

  Venkatarayalu, Neelakantam V ^a   Lee, Robert ^b   Gan, Yeow Beng ^a   Li, Le Wei ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain (FDTD) method; Finite element time domain method (FETD); Hanging variables; Stability analysis

Indexed keywords

CAVITY RESONATORS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

FINITE-ELEMENT TIME-DOMAIN METHOD; HANGING VARIABLES; INTERGRID BOUNDARY OPERATOR;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 34047199603     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.891809     Document Type: Article

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