Validation of FD-TD Modeling of the Radar Cross Section of Three-Dimensional Structures Spanning Up to Nine Wavelengths

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1985, Pages 662-666

  Taflove, Allen ^a   Umashankar, Korada R ^b   Jurgens, Thomas G ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c IIT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FD-TD) MODELING; MONOSTATIC RADAR; NINE-WAVELENGTH SIZE OBJECTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONDUCTING STRUCTURES;

RADAR;

EID: 0022079958     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.1985.1143644     Document Type: Article

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