A surface integral formulation of maxwell equations for topologically complex conducting domains

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 4001-4014

  Miano, Giovanni ^a   Villone, Fabio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Div conforming (facet) elements; Low frequency breakdown; Multiply connected domains; Null space; Null pinv decomposition; Surface integral equations

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CURRENT DENSITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

DIV-CONFORMING (FACET) ELEMENTS; LOW FREQUENCY BREAKDOWN; MULTIPLY CONNECTED DOMAINS; NULL SPACE; NULL-PINV DECOMPOSITION; SURFACE INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS;

EID: 29444445798     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.859898     Document Type: Article

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