A Fast Near-to-Far-Field Transformation in Body of Revolution Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2534-2540

  Farahat, Nader ^a   Yu, Wenhua ^a   Mittra, Raj ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Body of revolution; Finite difference time domain (FDTD); Near to far field transformation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

HANKEL TRANSFORM;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0141526376     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.816360     Document Type: Article

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