Scattering from 3-D inhomogeneous chiral bodies of arbitrary shape by the method of moments

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 6 II, 2007, Pages 1817-1825

  Hasanovic, Moamer ^a   Mei, Chong ^a   Mautz, Joseph R ^a   Arvas, Ercument ^a  

^a Syracuse University   (United States)

Author keywords

Chiral scatterer; Face based expansion functions; Method of moments (MoM); Tetrahedral mesh; Volume formulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; METHOD OF MOMENTS;

CHIRAL SCATTERER; FACE-BASED EXPANSION FUNCTIONS; VOLUME FORMULATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 34250902961     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.898590     Document Type: Article

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