Solving the volume integral equations of electromagnetic scattering

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 218, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 141-158

  Botha, Matthys M ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Computational electromagnetics; Galerkin projection; Higher order modeling; Maxwell's equations; Method of moments; Tetrahedral basis functions; Volume integral equations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS; GALERKIN METHODS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

BASE FUNCTION; CURL-CONFORMING; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING; FREE SPACES; FUNCTION SPACES; GALERKIN PROJECTIONS; HIGH-ORDER MODELING; HIGH-ORDER MODELS; TETRAHEDRAL BASE FUNCTION; VOLUME INTEGRAL EQUATION;

MAXWELL EQUATIONS;

EID: 33748532146     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2006.02.004     Document Type: Article

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