Fast and accurate solutions of scattering problems involving dielectric objects with moderate and low contrasts

2007 Computational Electromagnetics Workshop, CEM'07

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 59-64

  Ergül, Özgür ^a   Gürel, Levent ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FUNCTION EVALUATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MAGNETISM; SCATTERING; SOLUTIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

BREAKDOWN (BD); COMBINED FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATION (CFIE); COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS (CEM); CONVERGENCE (MATHEMATICS); DENSE MATRICES; DIELECTRIC OBJECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING PROBLEMS; IN ORDER; MAGNETIC CURRENTS; MULTILEVEL FAST MULTIPOLE ALGORITHM (MLFMA); PRECONDITIONER; PROBLEM SIZES; RAO-WILTON-GLISSON (RWG) FUNCTIONS; SCATTERING PROBLEM (SP); SURFACE FORMULATIONS; SURFACE INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3-D) OBJECTS;

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 46449093420     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEM.2007.4387652     Document Type: Conference Paper

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