Calculation of Sommerfeld Integrals for Modeling Vertical Dipole Array Antenna for Borehole Radar

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E86-C, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2085-2096

  Ebihara, Satoshi ^a   Chew, Weng Cho ^b  

^a OSAKA ELECTRO COMMUNICATION UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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

Author keywords

Asymptotic expansion; Directional borehole radar; Green's function; HE11 mode; MoM; Sommerfeld integration path; Steepest descent path; TM01 mode

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRATION; METHOD OF MOMENTS; RADAR;

DIPOLE ANTENNA ARRAYS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 0242495758     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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