Analysis of antennas on board arbitrary structures modeled by nurbs surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1045-1053

  Ferez, Jesus ^a   Saiz, Juan A ^a   Conde, Olga M ^a   Torres, Rafaël P ^a   Câtedra, Manuel F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antennas; Geometrical theory of diffraction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION;

COMPUTER AIDED GEOMETRIC DESIGN (CAGD); CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD (CGM); NONUNIFORM RATIONAL B-SPLINES (NURBS); RAY TRACING TECHNIQUE; UNIFORM THEORY OF DIFFRACTION (UTD);

ANTENNAS;

EID: 0031165939     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.585754     Document Type: Article

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