EQUIVALENCE OF PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS FOR THE TRANSMISSION-LINE MATRIX AND FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN METHODS IN 2 DIMENSIONS

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SIMONS, NRS
BRIDGES, E
机构
[1] Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba
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10.1109/22.102983
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
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In previous papers an equivalence between the TLM and FD-TD methods has been established by altering the definitions of field components and operation of the TLM algorithm such that the appropriate finite-difference expressions are satisfied. In this paper the equivalence of propagation characteristics for the TLM and FD-TD methods in two dimensions is discussed. Propagation analysis of a TLM shunt node complete with permittivity and loss stubs, and dispersion analysis of the two-dimensional FD-TD method in an arbitrary medium are performed and yield dispersion relations. The relations are identical when the FD-TD method is operated at the upper limit of its stability range.
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