Solution of electrically large problems with multilevel characteristic basis functions

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 57, Issue 10 PART 2, 2009, Pages 3189-3198

  Laviada, Jaime ^a   Las Heras, Fernando ^a   Pino, Marcos R ^a   Mittra, Raj ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive cross algorithm (ACA); Characteristic basis function method (CBFM); Direct solution; Method of moments (MoM)

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC BASIS FUNCTION METHODS; CHARACTERISTIC BASIS FUNCTIONS; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; DIRECT SOLUTION; DIRECT SOLUTION METHOD; ELECTRICALLY LARGE; FAR FIELD; NATURAL EXTENSION; REDUCED MATRIX;

ADHESIVE JOINTS; METHOD OF MOMENTS;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS;

EID: 76149115523     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2009.2028603     Document Type: Article

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