Application of the spectral acceleration forward-backward method to coverage analysis over terrain profiles

Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1049-1074

  Fernindez, Jesus Alberto Lopez ^a   Pino, Marcos Rodriguez ^a   Obelleiro, Fernando ^a   Rodriguez, José Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

FORWARD-BACKWARD METHOD; SPECTRAL ACCELERATION ALGORITHM;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0034824367     PISSN: 09205071     EISSN: 15693937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156939301X00427     Document Type: Article

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