A comparison of higher order nodal- and edge-basis functions in the MFIE on rational Bézier geometries

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1812-1818

  Hellicar, Andrew D ^a   Kot, John S ^a   James, Geoffrey ^a   Cambrell, Gregory K ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Boundary element methods (BEMs); Electromagnetic scattering; Magnetic field integral equation (MFIE)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ACCESSORIES; ANTENNAS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTORS; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; FUNCTION EVALUATION; GEOMETRY; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETISM; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHYSICAL OPTICS; RADAR ANTENNAS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACES;

BASIS FUNCTIONS; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; GENERAL (CO); GEOMETRICAL ERRORS; HIGHER ORDER; MAGNETIC FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATION (MFIE); NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS; PERFECT ELECTRIC CONDUCTOR (PEC); RADAR CROSS SECTION (RCS); SURF ACE CURRENTS; TEST PROBLEMS;

RADAR CROSS SECTION;

EID: 45549084005     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.922694     Document Type: Article

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