Novel electromagnetic surface integral equations for highly accurate computations of dielectric bodies with arbitrarily low contrasts

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 227, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 9898-9912

  Ergül, Özgür ^a   Gürel, Levent ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Dielectrics; Low contrast; Multilevel fast multipole algorithm; Surface integral equations

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; SURFACE SCATTERING;

ACCURATE COMPUTATIONS; DIELECTRIC BODY; DIELECTRIC OBJECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING PROBLEM; ELECTROMAGNETIC SURFACES; HIGHLY ACCURATE; LOW CONTRAST; MULTI LEVEL FAST MULTIPOLE ALGORITHMS (MLFMA); SCATTERED FIELD; SURFACE INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

STABILIZATION;

EID: 53349168386     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2008.08.004     Document Type: Article

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