Loop star basis functions and a robust preconditioner for EFIE scattering problems

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1855-1863

  Lee, Jin Fa ^a   Lee, Robert ^a   Burkholder, Robert J ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic scattering; Integral equations; Iterative methods; Moment methods

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; METHOD OF MOMENTS;

SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION (SVD);

ELECTRIC FIELDS;

EID: 0041862859     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.814736     Document Type: Article

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