FDTD modeling of a novel ELF radar for major oil deposits using a three-dimensional geodesic grid of the earth-ionosphere waveguide

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1734-1741

  Simpson, Jamesina J ^a   Heikes, Ross P ^b   Taflove, Allen ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth; Extremely low frequency (ELF); Finite difference time domain (FDTD); Geodesic grid; Oil field; Propagation attenuation; Radar; Sphere; Ultra low frequency (ULF)

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; IONOSPHERE; OIL FIELDS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

EXTREMELY LOW-FREQUENCY (ELF); FINITE-DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN (FDTD); GEODESIC GRID; PROPAGATION ATTENUATION; ULTRA-LOW FREQUENCY (ULF);

RADAR;

EID: 33745214021     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.875504     Document Type: Article

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