Development of a hp-like discontinuous Galerkin time-domain method on non-conforming simplical meshes for electromagnetic wave propagation

International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 193-216

  Fahs, Hassan ^a  

^a INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Computational electromagnetism; Discontinuous Galerkin method; hp like method; Maxwell's equations; Non conforming triangular mesh

Indexed keywords

EID: 62749143547     PISSN: 17055105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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