An efficient surface-impedance boundary condition for thin wires of finite conductivity

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3364-3372

  Mäkinen, Riku M ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Conductivity; Finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods; Rational approximation; Wire antennas

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN (FDTD) METHODS; RATIONAL APPROXIMATION; WIRE ANTENNAS;

DIPOLE ANTENNAS;

EID: 11144276043     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.836426     Document Type: Article

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