Improvement in heuristic UTD diffraction coefficient

Electronics Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 10-12

  El Sallabi, H M ^a   Vainikainen, P ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTANCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; HEURISTIC METHODS; LIGHTING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; POLARIZATION;

WEDGES;

DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0037426890     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20030089     Document Type: Article

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