Electromagnetic scattering from a rough layer: Propagation-inside-layer expansion method combined to an updated BMIA/CAG approach

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2790-2802

  Dechamps, Nicolas ^a   Bourlier, Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Banded matrix iterative approach (BMIA); Electromagnetic scattering from rough surfaces; Layered surfaces; Method of moments (MoM); Propagation inside layer expansion (PILE) method

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; METHOD OF MOMENTS;

BANDED MATRIX ITERATIVE APPROACH; BISTATIC SCATTERING COEFFICIENT; PROPAGATION-INSIDE-LAYER EXPANSION (PILE) METHOD;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 35348926908     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.905940     Document Type: Article

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