Modeling radio wave propagation in tunnels with a vectorial parabolic equation

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1403-1412

  Popov, Alexei V ^a,b   Zhu, Ning Yan ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b PUSHKOV INSTITUTE OF TERRESTRIAL MAGNETISM   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIO WAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TORSIONAL STRESS; TUNNELS; VECTORS;

ADIABATIC MODES; RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION; VECTORIAL PARABOLIC EQUATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 0034261622     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.898773     Document Type: Article

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