Diffraction by lossy dielectric wedges using both heuristic UTD formulations and FDTD

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1702-1708

  Rouviere, Jean François ^a   Douchin, Nicolas ^a   Combes, Paul F ^a  

^a ONERA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HEURISTIC METHODS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

LOSSY DIELECTRIC WEDGES; UNIFORM THEORY OF DIFFRACTION (UTD);

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0033225496     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.814950     Document Type: Article

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