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Schelkunoff's method, also commonly refered to as Coupled Mode Method (CMM), is a numerical method which gives the propagation constants and the electromagnetic field in a general homogeneous medium bounded by perfect electric walls. In this paper, we test Schelkunoff's method for a waveguide filled with an isotropic chiral material (chirowaveguide) where the dimensions of the walls are electrically large compared with the wavelength. It is reasonable to foresee that, in this case, the results given by Schelkunoff's method must approach to the corresponding ones for the chiral unbounded medium. Effectively, we obtain the solutions for both circular polarized waves (right-handed and left-handed) in free propagation in a single calculation. These results are in opposition with those of other authors analyzing analogous cases. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The TLM method, being a time domain method, cannot deal directly with frequency dispersive media. A way for modelling such media, for instance, dielectric dispersive ones, is proposed, starting from the causality relationship between field vectors D and E, which is discretized over the same space–time mesh as the three-dimensional TLM mesh (in our case, with HSCN node). This leads to adding, at each node on the network, three voltage sources (one for each field component), their value depending on the previous instants. The method is validated by computing the reflection (magnitude and phase) coefficient at normal incidence at an air–dielectric interface, for different dispersive behaviours of the dielectrics. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This letter describes a two-dimensional (2-D) extension of a recently developed finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) scheme to model wave propagation in bi-isotropic media. To our knowledge this method is the only one successfully generalized to modeling transient microwave signals in general lossy dispersive bi-isotropic media. The new 2-D cell built and computational procedure of the FDTD algorithm developed is described. Condon and Lorentz dispersion models have been included for modeling the frequency dependence of the medium parameters and the auxiliary differential equation (ADE) method is considered to deal with dispersion in order to avoid defining complex back-stored numbers to compute the convolutions recursively. Finally the oblique incidence of a wave on a chiral medium and the propagation in a general lossy bi-isotropic medium have been successfully simulated. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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A time-domain solution of electromagnetic wave propagation in Tellegen materials is presented. The angle tilt between electric and magnetic fields, the phase speed of the wave, and the intrinsic impedance are computed when the medium is excited with a monochromatic source. The results are in good agreement with theoretical predictions. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 38: 167–168, 2003; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/mop.11004 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]