Comparison of computational scattering methods

Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 411-423

  Wriedt, Thomas ^a   Comberg, Ute ^a  

^a STIFTUNG INSTITUT FÜR WERKSTOFFTECHNIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL DEMANDS; COUPLED DIPOLE METHOD; DISCRETE DIPOLE APPROXIMATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; EXTENDED BOUNDARY CONDITION METHODS; FINITE -DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS (FDTD); SCATTERING METHODS; VOLUME INTEGRAL EQUATION METHODS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 0000963309     PISSN: 00224073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-4073(98)00016-8     Document Type: Article

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