A Surface Integral Equation Formulation for Low-Frequency Scattering From a Composite Object

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 51, Issue 10 II, 2003, Pages 2837-2844

  Chu, Yunhui ^a   Chew, Weng Cho ^a   Zhao, Junsheng ^a,b   Chen, Siyuan ^a,c  

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

^b Madmax Optics   (United States)

^c AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Chang; Composite object; Harrington; Loop star; Loop tree; Low frequency; Miller; Poggio; Tsai formulation (PMCHWT); Wu

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FREQUENCIES; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

COMPOSITE OBJECTS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 0142094679     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2003.817999     Document Type: Article

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