Applications of the discrete green's function concept in circuit theory

Abstract

SUMMARYIt is shown that the analysis of a network comprising passive, active, reciprocal, nonreciprocal, lumped or distributed elements and excited by voltage and current sources distributed throughout the network can be very effectively undertaken with the aid of the discrete Green's function concept if the network may be represented as a chain of sub-networks having known two-port parameters and if independent sources are only present at ports joining these sub-networks.The procedure offers computational advantages when the number of sub-networks is large and moreover, it may be applied to the solution of other problems which are described by a large system of linear equations, when the coefficients form a band matrix.