SuperNEC: Antenna and indoor-propagation simulation program

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 31-48

  Fourie, André ^a   Nitch, Derek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; METHOD OF MOMENTS; RADIO COMMUNICATION;

GEOMETRICAL THEORY OF DIFFRACTION (DTG); INDOOR PROPAGATION; SOFTWARE PACKAGE SUPERNEC; UNIFIED THEORY OF DIFFRACTION (UTD);

ANTENNAS;

EID: 0034206307     PISSN: 10459243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/74.848946     Document Type: Article

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