UTD shooting-and-bouncing extension to a PO/PTD ray tracing algorithm

Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 281-293

  Weinmann, F ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR HIGH FREQUENCY PHYSICS AND RADAR TECHNIQUES FHR   (Germany)

Author keywords

And uniform theory of diffraction (UTD); Numerical modeling, physical optics (PO); Radar cross section (RCS); Ray tracing

Indexed keywords

AND UNIFORM THEORY OF DIFFRACTION (UTD); DIFFRACTION CALCULATIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC MODELING METHODS; NUMERICAL MODELING, PHYSICAL OPTICS (PO); PHYSICAL THEORY OF DIFFRACTION; RADAR CROSS SECTION (RCS); RAY-TRACING ALGORITHM; SCATTERED FIELD; SURFACE ELEMENTS; UNIFORM THEORY OF DIFFRACTION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; LIGHT; MODELS; PHYSICAL OPTICS; RAY TRACING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

RADAR CROSS SECTION;

EID: 67650806275     PISSN: 10544887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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