GPU accelerated unconditionally stable Crank-Nicolson FDTD method for the analysis of three-dimensional microwave circuits

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 102, Issue , 2010, Pages 381-395

  Xu, K ^a   Fan, Z H ^a   Ding, D Z ^a   Chen, R S ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS EQUIPMENT; CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; LINEAR SYSTEMS; MICROWAVE CIRCUITS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS; CRANK-NICOLSON FDTD METHOD; MULTIPLE PROCESSORS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PARALLEL COM- PUTING; PROGRAMMABLE GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT; SPARSE MATRIX VECTOR PRODUCTS; UNCONDITIONALLY STABLE;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 77952351000     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIER10020606     Document Type: Article

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