Error analysis of the moment method

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 38-53

  Warnick, Karl F ^a   Chew, Weng Cho ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Boundary element methods; Condition number; Electromagnetic scattering; Error analysis; Integral equations; Matrix inversion; Moment methods; Radar cross section; Sobolev norm; Surface current

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHOD; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; METHOD OF MOMENTS; OPTIMIZATION; RADAR CROSS SECTION;

CONDITION NUMBER; MATRIX INVERSION; SOBOLEV NORM; SURFACE CURRENT; TRANSVERSE ELECTRIC MODE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 14644401741     PISSN: 10459243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MAP.2004.1396735     Document Type: Article

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