Efficient analysis of antenna radiation in the presence of airborne dielectric radomes of arbitrary shape

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 1 II, 2005, Pages 442-449

  Zhao, Wei Jiang ^a   Li, Le Wei ^a,b   Gan, Yeow Beng ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Computational electromagnetics; Fast algorithm; Integral equation; Radome

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DIPOLE ANTENNAS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); GALERKIN METHODS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; METHOD OF MOMENTS; RADOMES;

AIRBORNE DIELECTRIC RADOME; COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS; FAST ALGORITHMS;

RADAR ANTENNAS;

EID: 13244278078     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.838783     Document Type: Article

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