Plane Wave Scattering From Three Dimensional Multiple Objects Using the Iterative Multiregion Technique Based on the FDFD Method

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 666-673

  Al Sharkawy, Mohamed H ^a   Demir, Veysel ^a   Elsherbeni, Atef Z ^a  

^a The University of Mississippi   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite difference frequency domain (FDFD); iterative methods; scattering

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008046734     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2005.863129     Document Type: Article

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