TIME-DOMAIN ANALYSIS OF TRANSMISSION-LINES WITH ARBITRARY NONLINEAR LOADS

A direct time-domain method is presented for calculating voltage waves at terminals and on transmission line terminating in an arbitrary non linear load. By utilizing a rime stepping of the load voltage with a s ufficiently small time interval one may linearize the nonlinear load i n that interval and obtain the convergent voltage responses. Numerical examples show that this is efficient in the computation without the u se of the inverse Fourier transform or the Newton-Raphson method for t he lossy transmission line. (C) 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.