A Fast Volume Integral Equation Solver for Electromagnetic Scattering from Large Inhomogeneous Objects in Planarly Layered Media

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2393-2401

  Millard, Xuemin ^a   Liu, Qing Huo ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fast algorithm; Layered media; Scattering; Stabilized biconjugate gradient fast Fourier transform (BCGS FFT) method; Volume integral equation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

INHOMOGENEOUS OBJECTS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0141526420     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.816311     Document Type: Article

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