A Procedure for Calculating Fields Inside Arbitrarily Shaped, Inhomogeneous Dielectric Bodies Using Linear Basis Functions with the Moment Method

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 1986, Pages 1131-1139

  Tsai, Chi Taou ^a   Massoudi, Habib ^a   Durney, Carl H ^a   Iskander, Magdy F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS - MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES - SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

ARBITRARILY SHAPED BODIES; FREE-SPACE GREEN'S FUNCTION INTEGRAL EQUATION (FGIE); INHOMOGENEOUS DIELECTRIC BODIES; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MODIFIED GALERKIN'S METHOD;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0022812104     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.1986.1133510     Document Type: Article

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