Novel monopolar MFIE MoM-discretization for the scattering analysis of small objects

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 50-57

  Ubeda, Eduard ^b   Rius, Juan M ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic scattering; Integral equations; Method of moments (MoM); Numerical analysis; Radar cross sections (RCS)

Indexed keywords

FUNCTION EVALUATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; RADAR CROSS SECTION;

DISCRETIZATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATION (MFIE); RADAR CROSS SECTIONS (RCS);

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 33847694852     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.861529     Document Type: Article

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