Depolarization volume and correlation length in the homogenization of anisotropic dielectric composites

Waves Random Media

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 485-498

  Mackay, Tom G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PERMITTIVITY; STATISTICS; VECTORS;

ANISOTROPIC DIELECTRIC COMPOSITE; DEPOLARIZATION; DISTRIBUTIONAL STATISTICS; HOMOGENIZED COMPOSITE MEDIUM; SCATTERING LOSSES; STRONG PERMITTIVITY FLUCTUATION THEORY; VECTOR HELMHOLTZ EQUATION;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION;

EID: 6344265350     PISSN: 09597174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0959-7174/14/4/001     Document Type: Article

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