Computational Electrodynamics: The Finite-difference Time-domain Method

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Artech House, 2005 - Science - 1006 pages
This extensively revised and expanded third edition of the Artech House bestseller, Computational Electrodynamics: The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method, offers engineers the most up-to-date and definitive resource on this critical method for solving Maxwell's equations. The method helps practitioners design antennas, wireless communications devices, high-speed digital and microwave circuits, and integrated optical devices with unsurpassed efficiency. There has been considerable advancement in FDTD computational technology over the past few years, and the third edition brings professionals the very latest details with entirely new chapters on important techniques, major updates on key topics, and new discussions on emerging areas such as nanophotonics. What's more, to supplement the third edition, the authors have created a Web site with solutions to problems, downloadable graphics and videos, and updates,

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The OneDimensional Scalar Wave Equation
21
Introduction to Maxwells Equations and the Yee Algorithm
51
Numerical Dispersion and Stability
107
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Allen Taflove is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. He is also the author of Computational Electrodynamics: The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method (Artech House 1995).

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