Monte Carlo simulations of wave scattering from lossy dielectric random rough surfaces using the physics-based two-grid method and the canonical-grid method

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 752-763

  Li, Qin ^a   Chan, Hou ^a   Tsang, Leung ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CANONICAL GRID METHOD; LOSSY DIELECTRIC RANDOM ROUGH SURFACE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0032667916     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.768816     Document Type: Article

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