A new numerical method for rough-surface scattering calculations

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 711-721

  Kapp, David A ^a   Brown, Gary S ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACES;

MAGNETIC FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATION; ROUGH SURFACE SCATTERING;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0030150421     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.496258     Document Type: Article

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