Human exposure to the near field of radiobase antennas - A full-wave solution using parallel FDTD

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 935-940

  Catarinucci, Luca ^a,b   Palazzari, Paolo ^c   Tarricone, Luciano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^c ENEA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Near field (NF); Numerical phantom; Parallel finite difference time domain (FDTD); Radiobase antennas

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; CODES (STANDARDS); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

PARALLEL FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN; RADIOBASE ANTENNAS; SAFETY STANDARDS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS;

EID: 0037358462     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2003.808695     Document Type: Article

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