Monte-Carlo Simulations of Large-Scale Problems of Random Rough Surface Scattering and Applications to Grazing Incidence with the BMIA/Canonical Grid Method

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 1995, Pages 851-859

  Tsang, Leung ^a   Chan, Chi H ^a   Pak, Kyung ^a   Sangani, Haresh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GEOMETRY; ITERATIVE METHODS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SURFACES;

CANONICAL GRID METHOD; GRAZING INCIDENCE; NONNEAR FIELD INTERACTION; RANDOM ROUGH SURFACE SCATTERING; TAYLOR SERIES EXPANSION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0029357186     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.402205     Document Type: Article

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