The Discontinuous galerkin Finite-Element time-domain method solution of Maxwell's equations

Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 129-142

  Gedney, Stephen D ^a   Luo, Chong ^a   Roden, J Alan ^b   Crawford, Robert D ^b   Guernsey, Bryan ^b   Miller, Jeffrey A ^b   Kramer, Tyler ^b   Lucas, Eric W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b AEROSPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Alpha Omega Electromagnetics LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Discontinuous galerkin method; Finite element time domain

Indexed keywords

ABSORBING MEDIUM; BASIS FUNCTIONS; BOUNDARY INTEGRALS; CURL-CONFORMING; DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN; DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHOD; DISCRETE EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE-ELEMENT DISCRETIZATION; FINITE-ELEMENT TIME-DOMAIN; FINITE-ELEMENT TIME-DOMAIN METHOD; HIGH-ORDER; MAXWELL'S CURL EQUATIONS; MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS; NON-OVERLAPPING SUBDOMAINS; PERFECTLY MATCHED LAYER; PROBLEM DOMAIN; SUBDOMAIN; TIME-DEPENDENT SOLUTIONS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GALERKIN METHODS; MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 67649513511     PISSN: 10544887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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