An Overview of the Hybrid MM/Green's Function Method in Electromagnetics

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 270-282

  Newman, Edward H ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; DATA STORAGE, DIGITAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES - SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT (CPU) TIME; GEOMETRICALLY COMPLEX BODIES; HYBRID MM/GREEN'S FUNCTION; METHOD OF MOMENTS (MM);

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS;

EID: 0023981187     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.4403     Document Type: Article

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