Parallel 3D time domain electromagnetic scattering simulations on unstructured meshes

CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 383-393

  Hassan, O ^a   Morgan, K ^b   Jones, J ^b   Larwood, B ^b   Weatherill, N P ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Finite element method; Large scale simulations; Parallelisation; Tetrahedral meshes; Time domain EM scattering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

LARGE SCALE SIMULATIONS; PARALLELIZATION; TETRAHEDRAL MESHES; TIME DOMAIN EM SCATTERING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 5144233205     PISSN: 15261492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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