FDTD Based RCS Calculations and Antenna Simulations

AEU-Archiv fur Elektronik und Ubertragungstechnik

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 65-75

  Sevgi, Levent ^a,b,c   Paker, Selçuk ^a,c  

^a ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ITU   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antenna simulation; Finite difference time domain; Numerical modeling; Radar cross section

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002410354     PISSN: 00011096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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