A three-dimensional modified finite volume technique for maxwell's equations

Niel K. Madsen; Richard W. Ziolkowski

doi:10.1080/02726349008908233

A three-dimensional modified finite volume technique for maxwell's equations

Niel K. Madsen
, Richard W. Ziolkowski

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

A modified finite volume method for solving Maxwell's equations in the time-domain is presented. This method, which allows the use of general nonorthogonal mixed-polyhedral grids, is a direct generalisation of the canonical staggered-grid finite difference method. Employing mixed polyhedral cells, (hexahedral, tetrahedral, etc.) this method allows more accurate modeling of non-rectangular structures. The traditional “stair-stepped” boundary approximations associated with the orthogonal grid based finite difference methods ate avoided. Numerical results demonstrating the accuracy of this new method are presented.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	147-161
Number of pages	15
Journal	Electromagnetics
Volume	10
Issue number	1-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/02726349008908233
State	Published - 1990

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