A stable FDTD algorithm for non-diagonal, anisotropic dielectrics

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1085-1101

  Werner, Gregory R ^a   Cary, John R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b TECH X CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropic dielectric; Dielectric; Electromagnetic; FDTD; Simulation; Tensor dielectric

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ERRORS; EXTRAPOLATION; MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

A-STABLE; ANISOTROPIC DIELECTRICS; ELECTROMAGNETICS; FDTD; FDTD ALGORITHM; PRINCIPAL AXIS; RICHARDSON EXTRAPOLATION; SECOND ORDERS; SIMULATION; TENSOR DIELECTRIC;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 34548450654     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2007.05.008     Document Type: Article

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