Rigorous analysis of numerical phase and group velocity bounds in Yee's FDTD grid

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 556-558

  Premaratne, Malin ^a,b   Halgamuge, Saman Kumara ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain (FDTD); Group velocity; Phase velocity

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHASE VELOCITY; VECTORS;

NUMERICAL DISPERSION; PROPAGATION VECTORS;

CRYSTAL LATTICES;

EID: 34547732362     PISSN: 15311309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LMWC.2007.901754     Document Type: Article

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