On the accuracy and stability of several widely used FDTD approaches for modeling lorentz dielectrics

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 10 PART 2, 2009, Pages 3378-3381

  Lin, Zhili ^a   Thylén, Lars ^b  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods; Numerical stability; Permittivity

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ACCURACY; AUXILIARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; BILINEAR TRANSFORMS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; ELECTRIC FIELD INTENSITIES; ELECTRIC FLUX DENSITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN; LORENTZ; MATERIAL PARAMETER; NUMERICAL STABILITIES; NUMERICAL STABILITY; PIECEWISE LINEAR RECURSIVE CONVOLUTION; STABILITY LIMIT;

ADVECTION; CONVOLUTION; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; PERMITTIVITY; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; STABILITY;

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 76149124814     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2029383     Document Type: Article

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