Contour Path FDTD Method for Analysis of Pyramidal Horns With Composite Inner E-Plane Walls

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 1994, Pages 1476-1483

  Tirkas, Panayiotis A ^a   Balanis, Constantine A ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNA REFLECTORS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MAGNETIC PERMEABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PERMITTIVITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

CONTOUR PATH METHOD; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD; PYRAMIDAL HORN ANTENNAS; PYRAMIDAL HORN SURFACE;

HORN ANTENNAS;

EID: 0028546316     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.362791     Document Type: Article

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