Preconditioned electric field integral equation using Calderon identities and dual loop/star basis functions

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 4 PART 2, 2009, Pages 1274-1279

  Stephanson, Matthew B ^a   Lee, Jin Fa ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Duality; Electric field integral equation (EFIE); Preconditioning

Indexed keywords

BASIS FUNCTIONS; DUAL BASIS; DUALITY; ELECTRIC FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATION (EFIE); FIELD INTEGRALS; LOW FREQUENCIES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PRECONDITIONER; PRECONDITIONING; ROUND-OFF ERRORS;

ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC FIELDS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS;

PHYSICAL OPTICS;

EID: 65549099671     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2016173     Document Type: Article

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