• DocumentCode
    1525597
  • Title

    Stability characteristics of absorbing boundary conditions in microwave circuit simulations

  • Author

    Yu, Wenhua ; Mittra, Raj ; Chakravarty, Sourav

  • Author_Institution
    Electromagn. Commun. Lab., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA, USA
  • Volume
    49
  • Issue
    9
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    9/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1347
  • Lastpage
    1349
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we examine the stability properties of several absorbing boundary conditions in the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations of microwave circuits. The numerical experiments show that the stability characteristics of absorbing boundary conditions, e.g., Mur´s (1981) and perfectly matched layers (PML), can depend upon the discretization of the computational domain
  • Keywords
    circuit stability; finite difference time-domain analysis; microstrip circuits; microwave circuits; simulation; strip line circuits; FDTD simulation; PML; absorbing boundary conditions; finite-difference time-domain simulation; microwave circuit simulation; numerical experiments; perfectly matched layers; stability characteristics; Antennas and propagation; Boundary conditions; Circuit simulation; Circuit stability; Computational modeling; Current distribution; Finite difference methods; Frequency; Microwave circuits; Time domain analysis;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-926X
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/8.947027
  • Filename
    947027