Scattering from coated targets using a frequency-dependent, surface impedance boundary condition in FDTD

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 434-443

  Penney, Christopher W ^a   Luebbers, Raymond J ^a   Schuster, Joseph W ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COATED MATERIALS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FREQUENCIES; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; PERMITTIVITY; RADAR CROSS SECTION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COATED TARGETS; DIELECTRIC COATINGS; MAGNETIC COATINGS; SURFACE IMPEDANCE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0030127902     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.489294     Document Type: Article

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