Examination, clarification, and simplification of stability and dispersion analysis for ADI-FDTD and CNSS-FDTD schemes

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3595-3602

  Ogurtsov, S ^a   Pan, George ^a   Diaz, Rodolfo ^a  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplification; Amplification matrix; Dispersion equation; Finite difference time domain analysis; Finite difference time main (FDTD) schemes; Hermitian matrices; Matrix algebra; Normal matrices; Skew Hermitian matrices; Stability; stability analysis; Time domain analysis; Unconditional stability; Unitary matrices

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

COURANT NUMBER; CRANK-NICHOLSON SPLIT STEP SCHEME; HERMITIAN MATRIX; STABILITY ANALYSIS;

DISPERSION (WAVES);

EID: 37249011877     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.910323     Document Type: Article

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