Monte carlo simulation of electromagnetic scattering from two-dimensional random rough surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 235-245

  Wagner, Robert L ^a   Song, Jiming ^a   Chew, Weng C ^a  

^a United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic scattering; Numerical analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACES; VECTORS;

FAST MULTIPOLE METHOD; KIRCHHOFF THEORY; MULTILEVEL FAST MULTIPOLE ALGORITHM;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0031076082     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.560342     Document Type: Article

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