On the discretization of the integral equation describing scattering by rough conducting surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 150-161

  Toporkov, Jakov V ^a   Marchand, Roger T ^a   Brown, Gary S ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic scattering; Numerical analysis; Pierson moskowitz spectrum; Rough surfaces

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

DISCRETIZATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0031647675     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.655462     Document Type: Article

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