On the FEM treatment of wedge singularities in waveguide problems

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1024-1029

  Juntunen, Jaakko S ^a,b,c  

^a IEEE   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

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EID: 33747379166     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.904740     Document Type: Article

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