Application of Curved Parametric Triangular and Quadrilateral Edge Elements in the Moment Method Solution of the EFIE

IEEE Microwave and Guided Wave Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 1993, Pages 319-321

  Zhu, Ning Yan ^a   Landstorfer, Friedrich M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DESCRIBING FUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTERPOLATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES;

CURVED PARAMETRIC TRIANGULAR ELEMENTS; ELECTRIC FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATIONS (EFIES); MAGNETIC FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATIONS (MFIES); MOMENT METHOD SOLUTION; QUADRILATERAL EDGE ELEMENTS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0027660034     PISSN: 10518207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/75.244865     Document Type: Article

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