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dispersion error

[də′spər·zhən ‚er·ər]
(ordnance)
Chance variation in a series of shots even though firing conditions are kept as constant as possible.
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dispersion error

dispersion error
The distance between the point of aim and the point of impact.
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All the results validated the good stability and low dispersion error of the CIP-MOC method.
CIP Method of Characteristics for the Solution of Tide Wave Equations
Dispersion Error. We compare the new method M968 to some already known methods; the methods chosen to be tested are as follows.
Diagonally implicit symplectic Runge-Kutta methods with high algebraic and dispersion order
Their 3D RD-FD is identical to our face-centered SFBS LFE-FC-7 stencil which halves the dispersion error of the classical FD2-7 formula.
DISPERSION AND LOCAL-ERROR ANALYSIS OF COMPACT LFE-27 FORMULA FOR OBTAINING SIXTH-ORDER ACCURATE NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS OF 3D HELMHOLTZ EQUATION
(ii) the dissipation and dispersion errors must both be small in a numerical scheme to yield efficient shock-capturing properties.
Optimized weighted essentially nonoscillatory third-order schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws
1(a), when [theta] = 0[degrees] ([k.sub.x] = k sin [theta] cos [PHI] = 0, [k.sub.y] = k sin [theta] sin [PHI] = 0, [k.sub.z] = k cos [theta] = k), along the z axis, the numerical dispersion error of the HIE-FDTD method is as large as that of the ADI-FDTD method.
Applications of a three-dimensional FDTD method with weakly conditional stability to the analysis of microstrip filters with fine scale structures
Numerical experiments to compute numerical dispersion errors and convergence orders and to simulate a scattering problem are carried out.
Modified Splitting FDTD Methods for Two-Dimensional Maxwell's Equations
It reduced the dispersion error to one half of the classical formula, while maintaining the same order (second-order) of accuracy.
Semi-analytical solutions of the 3-D homogeneous helmholtz equation by the method of connected local fields
However, similar to the ADI-FDTD method, the LOD-FDTD method also has a larger numerical dispersion error at larger time steps.
Two efficient unconditionally-stable four-stages split-step FDTD methods with low numerical dispersion
Since the partial differential equation considered is slightly dissipative and not dispersive, we aim to minimize the dispersion error of the scheme.
Numerical solution of the 1d advection-diffusion equation using standard and nonstandard finite difference schemes
In the case of first derivatives we consider the dispersion error, the error in phase velocity, and the error in group velocity as objective functions.
Optimized Finite Difference Formulas for Accurate High Frequency Components
It can be selected suitably to reduce the numerical dispersion error when the time step is large.
An unconditional stable 1D-FDTD method for modeling transmission lines based on precise split-step scheme
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