A pseudospectral method for time-domain computation of electromagnetic scattering by bodies of revolution

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 132-141

  Yang, Baolin ^a   Hesthaven, Jan S ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bistatic radar cross section; Body of revolution scattering; Pseudospectral multidomain methods; Time domain scattering

Indexed keywords

BODIES OF REVOLUTION; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

MONOCHROMATIC PLANE WAVE SCATTERING; MULTIDOMAIN PSEUDOSPECTRAL METHOD;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0032629615     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.753003     Document Type: Article

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