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Successful modelling of complex problems in electromagnetics requires advanced features which make it easier to deal with complexity and describe fine geometrical features. The expedient of increasing the mesh size to allow for a better problem definition leads very quickly to computational demands which far exceed what is available. As an illustration reducing the special step by a factor of two increases storage by a factor of eight and runtime by an even larger factor. In this chapter, techniques are described which attempt to deal with specific problem features in an efficient way without increasing mesh resolution. In addition, the way in which material properties, including frequency dependent properties, can be described in TLM is presented.
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Christopoulos, C. (2000). Enhancements to TLM. In: Uzunoglu, N.K., Nikita, K.S., Kaklamani, D.I. (eds) Applied Computational Electromagnetics. NATO ASI Series, vol 171. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59629-2_18
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