Electromagnetic Scattering from Composite Objects Using a Mixture of Exact and Impedance Boundary Conditions

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1991, Pages 826-833

  Kishk, Ahmed A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS--APPLICATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

BODIES OF REVOLUTION; COMBINED FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATION (CFIE); COMPOSITE OBJECTS; EXACT/IMPEDANCE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 0026169603     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.86883     Document Type: Article

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