Electromagnetic scattering from a rough layer: Propagation-inside-layer expansion method combined to the forward-backward novel spectral acceleration

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3576-3586

  Déchamps, Nicolas ^a   Bourlier, Christophe ^a  

^a Institut de Recherche en Electrotechnique et Electronique de Nantes Atlantique   (France)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic scattering; Electromagnetic scattering from rough surfaces; Forward backward; Layered surfaces; Method of moments (MoM); Novel spectral acceleration (NSA); Propagation inside layer expansion (PILE) method; Scattering; Spectral acceleration

Indexed keywords

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

BISTATIC CROSS SECTION; PROPAGATION-INSIDE-LAYER EXPANSION (PILE) METHOD; SPECTRAL ACCELERATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 37249074396     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2007.910360     Document Type: Article

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