Inward-Looking and Outward-Looking Formulations for Scattering from Penetrable Objects

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1992, Pages 714-720

  Pearson, L Wilson ^a   Peterson, Andrew F ^b   Bahrmasel, Louis J ^a   Whitaker, Rick A ^a  

^a BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

INWARD-LOOKING FORMULATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 0026882289     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.144606     Document Type: Article

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