Fast Direct Solution of Standard Moment-Method Matrices

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 15-26

  Canning, Francis X ^a,c,d,e,f,g   Rogovin, Kevin ^a,b,h  

^a ROCKWELL SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^d Actuarial Department of Liberty   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^f NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^g Inst Elec Electronics Engineers   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational electromagnetics; Electromagnetic analysis; Fast methods; LU factorization; Method of Moments; Sparse methods

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; METHOD OF MOMENTS;

FACTORIZATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY;

EID: 0032092862     PISSN: 10459243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/74.706066     Document Type: Article

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