Incomplete Hankel and modified bessel functions: A class of special functions for electromagnetics

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3373-3389

  Cicchetti, Renato ^a   Faraone, Antonio ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic approximants; Geometrical optics (GO) fields existence regions; Incomplete Bessel functions; Incomplete Hankel functions; Near field GO fields; Special functions

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BESSEL FUNCTIONS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ASYMPTOTIC APPROXIMANTS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS (GO) FIELDS EXISTENCE REGIONS; INCOMPLETE BESSEL FUNCTIONS; INCOMPLETE HANKEL FUNCTIONS; NEAR FIELD GEOMETRICAL OPTICS FIELDS; SPECIAL FUNCTIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

EID: 11144299731     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.835269     Document Type: Article

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