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Introduction to the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) Method for Electromagnetics

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Gedney, S.D. (2011). Absorbing Boundary Conditions. In: Introduction to the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) Method for Electromagnetics. Synthesis Lectures on Computational Electromagnetics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-01712-4_5

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