A new well-conditioned integral formulation for Maxwell equations in three dimensions

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 2995-3004

  Borel, Sophie ^a   Levadoux, David P ^a   Alouges, François ^b  

^a ONERA   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Combined field integral equation (CFIE); Electromagnetic scattering; Preconditioner

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS;

COMBINED FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATIONS (CFIE); ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; MAGNETIC POTENTIAL; PRECONDITIONER;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

EID: 27644558929     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.854561     Document Type: Article

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