Three-dimensional orthogonal vector basis functions for time-domain finite element solution of vector wave equations

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 59-66

  Jiao, Dan ^a   Jin, Jian Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic scattering; Electromagnetic transient analysis; Finite element methods; Numerical analysis

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VECTORS; WAVE EQUATIONS;

ELECTRIC FLUX;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0037238795     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.808524     Document Type: Article

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