A general approach to edge singularity extraction near composed wedges in boundary-element method

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 49, Issue 4 I, 2001, Pages 730-733

  Cecchini, Pierluigi ^a   Bardati, Fernando ^a   Ravanelli, Rodolfo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b ALENIA SPAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

BEM; Edge singularity

Indexed keywords

COMPOSED WEDGES; FIELD SINGULARITIES;

BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; MICROSTRIP LINES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

EID: 0035303947     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.915452     Document Type: Article

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