Incremental Length Diffraction Coefficients for the Shadow Boundary of a Convex Cylinder

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1458-1466

  Hansen, Thorkild B ^a,c   Shore, Robert A ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b SCHLUMBERGER DOLL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Physical theory of diffraction

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; GREEN'S FUNCTION; PHYSICAL OPTICS;

FOCK FUNCTIONS; INCREMENTAL LENGTH DIFFRACTION COEFFICIENTS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0032183087     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.725277     Document Type: Article

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