Higher order hierarchical Legendre basis functions for electromagnetic modeling

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2985-2995

  Jørgensen, Erik ^a,b   Volakis, John L ^c   Meincke, Peter ^a   Breinbjerg, Olav ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b TICRA   (Denmark)

^c Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Basis functions; Hierarchical systems; High order methods; Integral equations; Method of moments (MoM); Orthogonal functions; Polynomial approximation

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; INTERPOLATION; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; VECTORS;

HIERARCHICAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; HIGH ORDER METHODS; LEGENDRE POLYNOMIALS; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY;

EID: 9744232293     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2004.835279     Document Type: Article

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