Meep: A flexible free-software package for electromagnetic simulations by the FDTD method

Computer Physics Communications

Volumn 181, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 687-702

  Oskooi, Ardavan F ^a,c   Roundy, David ^b   Ibanescu, Mihai ^a,c   Bermel, Peter ^c   Joannopoulos, J D ^a,c   Johnson, Steven G ^a,c  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational electromagnetism; FDTD; Maxwell solver

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MODELING; ADVANCED SIGNAL PROCESSING; APPROXIMANTS; CATALOGUE IDENTIFIERS; CLASSICAL ELECTRODYNAMICS; COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETISM; DIAGONALIZATIONS; DISTRIBUTED PROGRAM; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; FDTD METHOD; FREE SOFTWARE; FUTURE DIRECTIONS; GEOSCIENCES; GERMANY; GNU/LINUX; IEEE PRESS; INTERFACE LIBRARY; IRELAND; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE; NONLINEAR MATERIALS; OPERATING SYSTEMS; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; RUNNING TIME; SOLUTION METHODS; STANDARD TEXTBOOK; SUB PIXELS; TEST DATA; TIME STEP;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; ELECTROMAGNETISM; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MESSAGE PASSING; METHOD OF MOMENTS; PACKAGING; PROBLEM ORIENTED LANGUAGES; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOFTWARE PACKAGES; TEST FACILITIES; UNIX;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

EID: 73449109459     PISSN: 00104655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2009.11.008     Document Type: Article

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