Numerical Determination of Diffraction, Slope-, and Multiple-Diffraction Coefficients of Impedance Wedges by the Method of Parabolic Equation: Space Waves

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 1995, Pages 1429-1435

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CALCULATIONS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ESTIMATION; GEOMETRY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CRANK NICHOLSON METHOD; IMPEDANCE WEDGE; MULTIPLE DIFFRACTION COEFFICIENT; PARABOLIC EQUATION; SEMI INFINITE SCATTERING BODY; SLOPE DIFFRACTION COEFFICIENT; SPACE WAVE DIFFRACTION; UNIFORM GEOMETRICAL THEORY OF DIFFRACTION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0029521024     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.475933     Document Type: Article

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