Incremental theory of diffraction: A new-improved formulation

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2234-2243

  Tiberio, Roberto ^a   Toccafondi, Alberto ^a   Polemi, Alessia ^a   Maci, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PHYSICAL OPTICS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC PROBLEMS; HIGH FREQUENCY FORMULATION; INCREMENTAL THEORY; INTEGRAL FORMULATION; SURFACE IMPEDANCE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION;

EID: 1542381945     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.834142     Document Type: Article

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