Survey on symplectic finite-difference time-domain schemes for Maxwell's equations

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 493-500

  Sha, Wei ^a   Huang, Zhixiang ^a   Chen, Mingsheng ^a   Wu, Xianliang ^a  

^a ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Index Terms High order differences; Maxwell's equations; Numerical stability and dispersion; Symplectic integrators

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; INTEGRATION;

COURANT FRIEDRICHS-LEVY NUMBER; INTEGRATION TIME STEPPING; S-PARAMETER EXTRACTION; SYMPLECTIC INTEGRATORS;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

EID: 40549128373     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.915444     Document Type: Article

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