Dispersion in the 2D unstructured transmission line modelling (UTLM) method

Author

Khashan, Lamia ; Vukovic, Ana ; Sewell, Phillip ; Benson, Trevor M.

Author_Institution

George Green Inst. for Electromagn., Univ. of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

fYear

2015

fDate

2-5 Feb. 2015

Firstpage

347

Lastpage

349

Abstract

In this paper the dispersion characteristics of the two-dimensional TLM method, based upon an unstructured triangular mesh, are investigated and compared against those of the TLM method based on structured rectangular mesh. This is done numerically on an example of plane wave propagation in an homogeneous free space. Phase errors of plane wave propagation are extracted for a variety of triangular meshes and compared to an equivalent conventional TLM mesh. The computational resources needed for TLM method based on triangular and rectangular grid to obtain the same numerical dispersion are also compared.

Keywords

transmission line theory; 2D unstructured transmission line modelling; TLM mesh; UTLM method; dispersion characteristics; numerical dispersion; phase errors; plane wave propagation; rectangular grid; rectangular mesh; triangular grid; unstructured triangular mesh; Computational modeling; Dispersion; Finite difference methods; Power transmission lines; Propagation; Time-domain analysis; Time-varying systems; Transmission Line Modelling Method; dispersion; structred mesh; unstructured mesh;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Electromagnetics (ICCEM), 2015 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMPEM.2015.7052657

Filename

7052657