Bistatic scattering and emissivities of random rough dielectric lossy surfaces with the physics-based two-grid method in conjunction with the sparse-matrix canonical grid method

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-11

  Li, Qin ^a   Tsang, Leung ^b   Pak, Kyung S ^c   Chan, Chi Hou ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MATRIX ALGEBRA; METHOD OF MOMENTS; PERMITTIVITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

BISTATIC SCATTERING; SPARSE-MATRIX CANONICAL GRID METHOD;

RADAR ANTENNAS;

EID: 0033872830     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.827379     Document Type: Article

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