Elimination of spurious solutions associated with exact transparent boundary conditions in FDTD solvers

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 59-62

  Lu, Mingyu ^a   Shanker, Balasubramanian ^b   Michielssen, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Exact transparent boundary condition; Finite difference time domain (FDTD); Methods; Spurious solutions

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; PERMITTIVITY; SAMPLING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VECTORS;

EXACT TRANSPARENT BOUNDARY CONDITION; FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD) METHODS; POSITION VECTORS; SPURIOUS SOLUTIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 5444227448     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2004.827892     Document Type: Article

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