Accurate numerical modeling of the TARA reflector system

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1758-1766

  Heldring, Alex ^a   Rius, Juan M ^a   Ligthart, Leo P ^b   Cardama, Angel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANTENNA FEEDERS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTRIC FIELDS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; PARABOLIC ANTENNAS; RADAR SYSTEMS; STRUTS;

ELECTRIC FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATION; MULTILEVEL FAST MULTIPOLE METHOD; PRECONDITIONING; TRANSPORTABLE ATMOSPHERIC RADAR SYSTEM;

ANTENNA REFLECTORS;

EID: 4043178536     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.831408     Document Type: Article

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