Application of curvilinear basis functions and MLFMA for radiation and scattering problems involving curved PEC structures

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 331-336

  Chao, Hsueh Yung ^a   Zhao, Jun Sheng ^a   Chew, Weng Cho ^a  

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

Author keywords

Convergence tests; Curvilinear junction basis function; Method of moments (MoM); Multilevel fast multipole algorithm (MLFMA)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ERROR CORRECTION; METHOD OF MOMENTS; RADAR CROSS SECTION;

CONVERGENCE TESTS; CURVILINEAR BASIS FUNCTIONS; MULTILEVEL FAST MULTIPOLE ALGORITHM;

ANTENNA RADIATION;

EID: 0037852936     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.808527     Document Type: Article

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