An integral equation approach to the prediction of indoor wave propagation

Radio Science

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1833-1850

  De Backer, Bernard ^a   Olyslager, Frank ^a   De Zutter, Daniël ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; WAVE PROPAGATION; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

CONJUGATE GRADIENT ALGORITHMS; IMPEDANCE MATRICES; INTEGRAL EQUATION APPROACHES; INTERACTION INTEGRALS; INTERACTION MATRICES; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; SOLUTION TECHNIQUES; WAVE PROPAGATION PROBLEMS;

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; RADIO TRANSMISSION;

INDOOR WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0031235253     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97RS01400     Document Type: Article

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