A comprehensive new methodology for formulating FDTD schemes with controlled order of accuracy and dispersion

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3516-3525

  Finkelstein, Bezakel ^a   Kastner, Raphael ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain (FDTD); Numerical dispersion; Order of accuracy (OoA); Wave equation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DISPERSION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; DISPERSION (WAVES); ERRORS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; METHOD OF MOMENTS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

DISPERSION ERRORS; DISPERSION RELATION PRESERVING; DO-MAINS; FDTD SCHEMES; FINITE-DIFFERENCE-TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD); HIGHER ORDER SCHEMES; LONG TERMS; LOW FREQUENCY BEHAVIORS; NUMERICAL DISPERSION; NUMERICAL DISPERSIONS; ORDER OF ACCURACY (OOA); STABILITY ANALYSES; TIME STEPS; UNIFIED METHODOLOGIES;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 57149147614     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.2005458     Document Type: Article

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