A Fast Finite Difference Method for Propagation Predictions Over Irregular, Inhomogeneous Terrain

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 1994, Pages 1257-1267

  Janaswamy, Ramakrishna ^a  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FUNCTION EVALUATION; GEOMETRY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INVARIANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

EXECUTION TIME OF ORDER; GREEN FUNCTION; RICATTI TRANSFORM; SPARSE MATRIX; STORAGE SPACE OF ORDER; TERRAIN;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0028495322     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.318647     Document Type: Article

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