A novel acceleration algorithm for the computation of scattering from rough surfaces with the forward-backward method

Radio Science

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1277-1287

  Chou, Hsi Tseng ^a   Johnson, Joel T ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FORWARD SCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE SCATTERING; WIND; GREEN'S FUNCTION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ACCELERATION ALGORITHM; COMPUTATIONAL ALGORITHM; FAST MULTIPOLE METHOD; FORWARD BACKWARD METHOD; GRAZING INCIDENCE ANGLE; ITERATIVE APPROACH; ITERATIVE TECHNIQUE; SCATTERING FROM ROUGH SURFACES;

ITERATIVE METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING;

ACCELERATION ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY SURFACES; FORWARD-BACKWARD METHOD; GRAZING INCIDENCE ANGLES;

EID: 0032162573     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98RS01888     Document Type: Article

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