RF field mapping inside a large passenger-aircraft cabin using a refi ned ray-tracing algorithm

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 276-288

  Choudhury, Balamati ^a   Singh, Hema ^a   Bommer, Jason P ^b   Jha, R M ^a  

^a SURFACE ENGINEERING DIVISION   (India)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

aircraft; aircraft cabin; analytical surface modeling; ray tracing; Refined ray tracing; RF field mapping

Indexed keywords

CONSTITUTIVE EM PARAMETERS; CONVERGENCE ANALYSIS; CYLINDRICAL CAVITIES; PASSENGER AIRCRAFTS; RAY-TRACING ALGORITHM; REFINED RAY TRACINGS; RF FIELDS; SURFACE MODELING;

AIRCRAFT; AIRCRAFT MATERIALS; ALGORITHMS; MAPPING; NUMERICAL METHODS; RAY TRACING;

CABINS (AIRCRAFT);

EID: 84874955262     PISSN: 10459243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MAP.2013.6474545     Document Type: Article

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