A 3-D discontinuous spectral element time-domain method for Maxwell's equations

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2666-2674

  Lee, Joon Ho ^a,b   Chen, Jiefu ^a   Liu, Qing Huo ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b Wave Computation Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Block diagonal mass matrix; Discontinuous Galerkin's method; Discontinuous spectral element time domain method (SETD); Gauss Lobatto Legendre (GLL) polynomials; Perfectly matched layers (PML); Runge Kutta method

Indexed keywords

BLOCK-DIAGONAL MASS MATRIX; DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN'S METHOD; DISCONTINUOUS SPECTRAL ELEMENT TIME-DOMAIN METHOD (SETD); GAUSS-LOBATTO-LEGENDRE (GLL) POLYNOMIALS; PERFECTLY MATCHED LAYERS (PML);

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; GALERKIN METHODS; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POLYNOMIALS; RUNGE KUTTA METHODS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349246734     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2027731     Document Type: Article

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