Transient analysis of multiconductor transmission lines with nonlinear loads: Convergence aspects

Multiconductor transmission lines terminated with nonlinear elements are most simply analyzed in the time-domain. For this purpose, an explicit algorithm was introduced earlier for the propagation of voltages and currents on the conductors. The algorithm uses a predictor-corrector scheme for the integration of the nonlinear differential equations at the terminations. In this paper the stability of the numerical scheme is discussed and a criterion for its convergence is derived.