Combining the higher order method of moments with geometric modeling by NURBS surfaces

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3558-3563

  Yuan, Haobo ^a   Wang, Nan ^a   Liang, Changhong ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Geometric modeling; Impedance matrix; Method of moments (MoM); Radar cross sections (RCS)

Indexed keywords

BISTATIC RADAR CROSS SECTION; ELECTRIC FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATION; GEOMETRIC MODELING; HIGHER ORDER; HIGHER ORDER BASIS FUNCTIONS; HIGHER-ORDER METHODS; IMPEDANCE MATRICES; IMPEDANCE MATRIX; MATRIX EQUATIONS; NON-UNIFORM RATIONAL B-SPLINES; NURBS SURFACE; RADAR CROSS SECTIONS (RCS);

ANTENNAS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; GEOMETRY; PHYSICAL OPTICS; RADAR CROSS SECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPLINES;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

EID: 70449470406     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2023095     Document Type: Article

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