FEM-based surface wave multimixed-path propagator and path loss predictions

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages 1010-1013

  Apaydin, Gökhan ^a   Sevgi, Levent ^b  

^a University of Technology   (Switzerland)

^b DOGUS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Finite element method (FEM); Millington effect; Mixed path propagation; Surface waves

Indexed keywords

MILLINGTON EFFECT; PATH LOSS; PATH LOSS PREDICTION; PATH PROPAGATION; PROPAGATION PATHS; RECOVERY EFFECTS; SURFACE WAVE CONTRIBUTIONS;

FREQUENCY BANDS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; SURFACE WAVES; WATER WAVES; WAVE PROPAGATION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 77950798783     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2009.2030966     Document Type: Article

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