Conservative and provably stable FDTD subgridding

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2537-2549

  Chilton, Ryan A ^a   Lee, Robert ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain (FDTD); Finite elements; Geometric multigrid; Nested mesh refinement; Stability analysis; Subgridding

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; EXTRAPOLATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GRID COMPUTING; INTERPOLATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS; GEOMETRIC MULTIGRID; NESTED MESH REFINEMENT; SUBGRIDDING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE INTERFERENCE;

EID: 34548626229     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.904092     Document Type: Article

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