The use of curl-conforming basis functions for the magnetic-field integral equation

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1917-1926

  Ergül, Özgür ^a   Gürel, Levent ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Fast multipole method; Integral equations; Magnetic field integral equation (MFIE); Method of moments (MoM)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; INTEGRATION; METHOD OF MOMENTS;

FAST MULTIPOLE METHOD; MAGNETIC-FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATION; RAO-WILTON-GLISSON FUNCTION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

EID: 33746870355     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2006.877159     Document Type: Article

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