On the convergence of the classical symmetrical condensed node-TLM scheme

Jürgen N. Rebel, Martin Aidam, Peter Russer

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Abstract

This paper presents a proof of convergence of the transmission-line matrix (TLM) method with a symmetrical condensed node (SCN) in the classical formulation of Johns. It is shown that the convergence order of the SCN-TLM method cannot simply be derived from observing the dispersion characteristics of the TLM mesh. The mapping between the discretized electromagnetic field and TLM wave amplitudes plays a decisive role. Although second-order convergence is observed for coarse discretizations, which are usually used in practice due to the limitations of memory resources, it is shown and numerically verified that the asymptotic convergence reduces to order O(√Δt). Only using a bijective field mapping defined at the cell boundaries yields second-order convergence.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)954-963
Number of pages10
JournalIEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques
Volume49
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2001

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