High-Frequency Electromagnetic Scattering of Plane Waves from Double Wedges

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 1989, Pages 1172-1180

  Kouyoumjian, Robert G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS;

DOUBLE DIFFRACTION; DOUBLE-EDGE STRUCTURES; DYADIC DIFFRACTION COEFFICIENT; GEOMETRICAL THEORY OF DIFFRACTION; HIGH FREQUENCY SCATTERING; UNIFORM GTD;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 0024738592     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.35798     Document Type: Article

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