Improving the accuracy of the magnetic field integral equation with the linear-linear basis functions

Radio Science

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Ergül, Özgür ^a   Gürel, Levent ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TRIANGULATION;

COMBINED-FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATION (CFIE); LINEAR NORMAL AND LINEAR TANGENTIAL (LN-LT) TYPE; RAO-WILTON-GLISSON (RWG);

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 33746889133     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005RS003307     Document Type: Article

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