The Huygens subgridding for the numerical solution of the Maxwell equations

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 230, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 5635-5659

  Bérenger, Jean Pierre ^a  

^a Centre d'Analyse de Defense   (France)

Author keywords

Domain decomposition; Electromagnetic; FDTD; Huygens surface; Numerical method; Subgrid

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

DOMAIN DECOMPOSITIONS; ELECTROMAGNETICS; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; HUYGEN SURFACE; HUYGENS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PHYSICAL VOLUMES; SUB-GRIDS; SUBGRIDDING; SUBGRIDDING TECHNIQUE;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 79955732835     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2011.03.046     Document Type: Article

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