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Volume 9 Number 3
  • ISSN: 1569-4445
  • E-ISSN: 1873-0604

Abstract

ABSTRACT

In this paper we describe the discontinuous Galerkin time‐domain method and apply it to the simulation of ground‐penetrating radar (GPR) problems in 3D. The method is first validated with analytical solutions and we show its superior behaviour when compared to the classical finite‐difference time‐domain method, widely employed in GPR simulation.

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