Asymptotic behavior of two series used for the evaluation of Kirchhoff diffractals

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 59, Issue 6 PART 2, 2011, Pages 2442-2444

  Perna, Stefano ^a,b   Iodice, Antonio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSING OF THE ENVIRONMENT   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asymptotic series expansions; fractals; scattering

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIORS; ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSION; ASYMPTOTIC SERIES EXPANSIONS; ELECTROMAGNETIC POWER; FINITE PRECISION; FRACTAL SURFACES; KIRCHHOFF; KIRCHHOFF APPROXIMATIONS; SCATTERING INTEGRAL; SERIES EXPANSION;

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; FRACTALS;

EXPANSION;

EID: 79958008771     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2143673     Document Type: Article

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