Numerical study of diffraction and slope-diffraction at anisotropie impedance wedges by the method of parabolic equation: Space waves

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 822-828

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diffraction; Electromagnetic scattering

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

ANISOTROPIC IMPEDANCE SURFACES; CRANK-NICHOLSON FINITE DIFFERENCE (FD) SCHEME; SCALAR IMPEDANCE WEDGES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0031139141     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.575629     Document Type: Article

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