A Fast and Rapidly Convergent Iterative Physical Optics Algorithm for Computing the RCS of Open-Ended Cavities

Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Newsletter

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 53-60

  Burkholder, Robert J ^a  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavities; Electromagnetic scattering; Iterative methods; Physical optics; Radar cross sections

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; INTEGRATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHYSICAL OPTICS; RADAR CROSS SECTION;

OPEN-ENDED CAVITIES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0035275680     PISSN: 10569170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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