Analysis of transient electromagnetic scattering phenomena using a two-level plane wave time-domain algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 510-523

  Shanker, Balasubramaniam ^a,b   Arif Ergin, A ^b   Aygün, Kemal ^b   Michielssen, Eric ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

MARCHING ON IN TIME BASED SOLVERS; PLANE WAVE TIME DOMAIN ALGORITHM; TRANSIENT ANALYSIS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0033714679     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.843664     Document Type: Article

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