Fast solution of mixed-potential time-domain integral equations for half-space environments

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 269-279

  Baǧci, Hakan ^a   Yilmaz, Ali E ^a   Lomakin, Vitaliy ^a   Michielssen, Eric ^a  

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

Author keywords

Buried object; Fast fourier transform (FFT); Marching on in time (MOT); Sommerfeld integrals; Time domain half space green functions; Time domain integral equations

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCIES; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

BURIED OBJECTS; MARCHING-ON-IN-TIME (MOT); SOMMERFELD INTEGRALS; TIME DOMAIN INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; TIME-DOMAIN HALF-SPACE GREEN FUNCTIONS;

SCATTERING;

EID: 13144276359     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.841489     Document Type: Article

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