Well-conditioned Müller formulation for electromagnetic scattering by dielectric objects

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 3316-3323

  Ylä Oijala, Pasi ^a   Taskinen, Matti ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Dielectric object; Electromagnetic scattering; Low frequency; Method of moments (MoM); M ller formulation; Surface integral equation

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); GALERKIN METHODS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTEGRATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; METHOD OF MOMENTS;

DIELECTRIC OBJECT; MULLER FORMULATION; SURFACE INTEGRAL EQUATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 27644453031     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.856313     Document Type: Article

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