A symmetric electromagnetic-circuit simulator based on the extended time-domain finite element method

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2875-2884

  Wang, Rui ^a   Jin, Jian Ming ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Hybrid solver; Linear nonlinear circuit simulation; Time domain finite element method (FEM); Transient analysis

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT SIMULATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; LUMPED PARAMETER NETWORKS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVES; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; SPICE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

ACTIVE DEVICES; APPLICATIONS.; CIRCUIT SIMULATORS; FINITE ELEMENT SOLVERS; GLOBAL SYSTEMS; HYBRID SOLVER; LINEAR/NONLINEAR CIRCUIT SIMULATION; LUMPED CIRCUITS; NON LINEARITIES; NUMERICAL EXAMPLES; SOLUTION ALGORITHMS; SUB SYSTEMS; TIME-DOMAIN FINITE ELEMENT METHOD (FEM); TRANSIENT CIRCUITS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 57849157824     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2008.2007336     Document Type: Conference Paper

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