Time-domain sensitivity analysis of planar structures using first-order one-way wave-equation boundaries

International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 287-296

  Basi, Peter A W ^a   Bakr, Mohamed H ^a   Nikolova, Natalia K ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Absorbing boundary conditions (ABC); Adjoint variable method (AVM); Computer aided design (CAD); Electromagnetic modeling; Sensitivity analysis; Symmetrical condensed node (SCN); Transmission line modeling (TLM)

Indexed keywords

METHOD OF MOMENTS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ABSORBING BOUNDARIES; ABSORBING BOUNDARY CONDITIONS (ABC); ADJOINT; ADJOINT VARIABLE METHOD (AVM); ADJOINT VARIABLE METHODS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN (CAD); ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING; FINITE DIFFERENCING; FIRST ORDERS; MICROSTRIP CIRCUITS; PLANAR STRUCTURES; SYMMETRICAL CONDENSED NODE (SCN); TIME-DOMAIN SENSITIVITY; TRANSMISSION LINE MODELLING; TRANSMISSION-LINE MODELING (TLM);

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 52449126145     PISSN: 08943370     EISSN: 10991204     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnm.668     Document Type: Article

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