Numerical examinations of the stability of FDTD subgridding schemes

Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 189-194

  Wang, Shumin ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

Author keywords

FDTD method; Stability; Subgridding

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

FDTD SUBGRIDDING SCHEMES; NUMERICAL EXAMINATIONS; SAME-TIME-STEP; SUBGRIDDING;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

EID: 34547231589     PISSN: 10544887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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