A practical implementation and comparative assessment of the radial-angular-transform singularity cancellation method

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4634-4642

  Kaur, Guneet ^a   Yilmaz, Ali E ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Integral equations; method of moments (MOM); numerical quadrature; singular integrals

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC FORMS; CLASSICAL SOLUTIONS; COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT; ELECTRIC FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATION; ERROR ESTIMATES; ERROR LEVELS; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; GREEN FUNCTION; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH-ORDER; IMPEDANCE MATRICES; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; NUMERICAL QUADRATURE; NUMERICAL RESULTS; ON-THE-FLY; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION; QUADRATURE RULES; RWG BASIS FUNCTION; SCATTERING PROBLEMS; SINGULAR INTEGRAL; SINGULARITY CANCELLATION; SINGULARITY EXTRACTION;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; RATING;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 82455162196     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2011.2165516     Document Type: Article

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