Raphael Kastner's Research Interests

Prof. Raphael Kastner's Publications

List of Journal papers

1. R. Mittra and R. Kastner, "A spectral domain approach for computing the radiation characteristics of a leaky-wave antenna for millimeter waves", IEEE Trans. on Antenna and Propagation, vol. AP-29, No. 4. pp. 652-654, July 1981.

2. R. Kastner and R. Mittra, "A spectral-domain technique for analyzing a corrugated-surface twist polarizer for scanning reflector antennas", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, vol. AP-30, No. 4, pp. 673-676, July 1982.

3. R.Kastner and R. Mittra,"A spectral-iteration technique for analyzing scattering from arbitrary bodies, Part I: Cylindrical scatterers with E-wave incidence", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, vol. AP-31, No. 3, pp. 499-506, May 1983.

4. R. Kastner and R. Mittra,"A spectral-iteration technique for analyzing scattering from arbitrary bodies, Part 2: Conducting cylinders with H-wave incidence", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, vol. AP-31, No. 3, pp. 535-537, May 1983.

5. R. Kastner and R. Mittra,"A new, stacked two-dimensional spectral-iterative technique for analyzing microwave power deposition in biological media", IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory and Technique, vol. MTT-31, No. 11, pp. 898-904, November 1983.

6. R. Kastner and R. Mittra,"Iterative analysis of finite sized planar selective surfaces with rectangular patches or perforations", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, vol. AP-35, No. 4, pp. 372-377, April 1987.

7. R. Kastner,"On the singularity of the full spectral Green's dyad", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, vol. AP-35, No. 11, pp. 1303-1305, November 1987.

8. R. Kastner, E. Heyman, and A. Sabban, "Spectral-domain iterative analysis of single and double layered microstrip antennas using the Conjugate Gradient algorithm", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, vol. AP-36, pp. 1204-1212, September 1988.

9. R. Kastner,"A Conjugate Gradient procedure for the analysis of planar conductors with alternating patch and aperture formulations", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, vol. AP-36, 1616-1620, November 1988.

10. R. Kastner,"An `Add-On' method for the analysis of large planar structures", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, vol. AP-37, pp. 353-361, March 1989.

11. R. Kastner,"On matrix partitioning and the `Add-On' method", Electromagnetics, vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 331-344, 1989.

12. R. Kastner,"Analysis of microstrip antennas structures using the `Add-On' technique", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, vol. AP-38, pp. 114-117, January 1990.

13. Y. Kol, N. Herscovici and R. Kastner,"Analysis and optimization of wideband constant beamwidth sectoral horns", Journal of Electromagnetic waves and Applications, vol. 4, No. 7, pp. 673-682, July 1990.

14. R. Kastner and N. Herscovici,"A concise Conjugate Gradient Computation of plate problems with many excitations", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, vol. AP-38, No. 8, pp. 1239-1243, August 1990.

15. R. Kastner and R. Mittra,"An `Add-On' approach to determining the effect of modification of the geometry of a thin plate on its electromagnetic scattering properties", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, vol. AP-38, No. 11, pp. 1729-1736, Nov. 1990.

16. R. Kastner and N. Herscovici,"A two stage computation of apertures in a large finite screen", IEE Proc., Part H, vol. 138, No. 5, pp. 435-440, Oct. 1991.

17. R. Kastner,"On the convergence of matrix elements in planar and waveguide structures", IEE Proc., Part H, vol. 138, No. 6, pp. 532-536, Dec. 1991.

18. R. Kastner and M. Kadishevitz,"Stability of scattering formulations with multiple elemental current excitations", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, vol. AP-39, No. 12, pp. 1784- 1788, Dec. 1991.

19. R. Kastner,"Efficient analysis of multiple excitation planar problems using equivalent incident currents", Radio Science, vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 151-159, March-April 1992.

20. R. Kastner,"On the nonuniqueness of equivalent current sheets supporting discontinuous electromagnetic fields", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, vol. AP-40, No. 12, pp. 1571- 1573, December 1992.

21. R. Kastner and Y. Twig,"An` `Add-On" analysis of large open circular-cylindrical cavities", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, vol. AP-42, No. 2, pp. 255-260, February 1994.

22. Y. Twig and R. Kastner,"A recursive LU decomposition algorithm", Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 48-52, February 1994.

23. H. L. Pereyaslavets and R. Kastner, "Analysis of a two-Octave polarization rotator using the method of equivalent boundary conditions", Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 207-209, March 1994.

24. R. Kastner and R. A. Drori,"Reduction of the number of unknowns in large stacked planar structures by a fringe aperture formulation", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, vol. AP-42, No. 6, pp. 806-814, June 1994.

25. Kh. Garb, R. Meyerova, and R. Kastner,"Analysis of longitudinal slots in ridged waveguidesusing a hybrid finite element - Galerkin technique", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, vol. AP-42, No. 6, pp. 833-839, June 1994.

26. R. Kastner,"Non unique singular sources and fields in the presence of discontinuous electromagnetic fields", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, vol. AP-42, No. 7, pp. 1011-1013, July 1994,.

27. Y. Twig and R. Kastner,"Recursive aperture formulation for the joint solution of many large open circular - cylindrical cavities", Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, vol. 8, No. 11, pp. 1465-1479, November 1994.

28. E. Aloni and R. Kastner, "Analysis of a dual circularly polarized microstrip antenna fed by crossed slots", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, vol. AP-42, No. 8, pp. 1053-1058, August 1994.

29. Kh. Garb, R. Kastner, and R. Meyerova,"Analysis of planar arrays of shunt slots in ridged waveguides", Electronics Letters, vol. 30, No. 7, pp. 533-534, March 1994.

30. R. Kastner,"Rapid approximation of conducting problems using a dual image approach", Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 7, No. 11, pp. 486-489, August 5, 1994.

31. Kh. Garb and R. Kastner,"Characteristic Impedance of Quadruple-Ridged Square Waveguides", Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 8, No. 5, pp. 236-238, April 5, 1995.

32. R. Kastner and G. Nocham,"Matrix thinning with Reduced Field Testing (RFT)", Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 9, No. 6, pp. 329-333, August 20, 1995.

33. B.Finkelstein and R. Kastner,"Fast Iterative Algorithm for the Fine Detail Analysis of Planar Scatterers", Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 94-100, October 5, 1995.

34. Khona Garb and Raphael Kastner,"Characteristic Impedance of a Rectangular Double Ridged TEM Line", IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 554- 557, April 1997.

35. Y. Twig and R. Kastner,"Block Tri-Diagonal Matrix Formulation for Inhomogeneous Penetrable Cylinders", IEE Proc. Microwaves, Antennas Propagat., vol. 144, No. 3, pp. 184-190, June 1997.

36. A. Shlivinski, E. Heyman and R. Kastner,"Antenna Characterization in the Time Domain", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, vol. AP-45, No. 7, pp. 1140-1149, July 1997.

37. B. Fidel, E. Heyman, R. Kastner and R. W. Ziolkowski,"Hybrid Ray-FDTD Moving Window Approach to Pulse Propagation", Journal of Computational Physics, 138, pp. 480-500, 1997.

38. A. Blank, R. Kastner and H. Levanon,"Exploring new active materials for low noise, room temperature, microwave amplifiers and other devices", IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 46, no. 12, pp. 2137-2144, Dec. 1998.

39. Y. Pemper, V. Lomakin, E. Heyman, R. Kastner and R.W. Ziolkowski,"Moving coordinate frame FDTD analysis of long range tracking of pulsed fields in graded index waveguides". Abstract: J. Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, Vol. 14, pp. 493-496, 2000. Full text: PIER 26, pp. 135-166, 2000.

40. Y. Pemper, E. Heyman, R. Kastner and R.W. Ziolkowski,"Hybrid ray-FDTD moving coordinate frame approach for long range tracking of collimated wavepackets". Abstract: J. Electromagnetic waves and Applications, Vol. 14, pp. 1115-1117, 2000. Full text: Progress In Electromagnetic Research (PIER) 30, EMW Publishing, pp. 1-32, Cambridge 2001.

41. J. Pasvolsky, R. Kastner, E. Heyman and A. Boag, "Electromagnetic Analysis of an Antenna Embedded in a Composite Environment", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 49, No. 5, May 2001.

42. R. Holtzman and R. Kastner, "On the time domain discrete Green's function at the FDTD grid boundary", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 49, No. 7, pp. 1079-1093, July 2001.

43. R. Holtzman, R. Kastner, E. Heyman and R. W. Ziolkowski, "Stability Analysis of the Green's Function Method (GFM) used as an ABC for Arbitrarily-Shaped Boundaries", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 50, pp. 1017-1029, July 2002.

44. A. Boag, U. Shemer, and R. Kastner, "Hybrid Absorbing Boundary Conditions Based on Fast Non-uniform Grid Integration for Non-Convex Scatterers", Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 102-106, Oct. 20, 2004.

45. R. Holtzman, R. Kastner, E. Heyman and R. W. Ziolkowski, "Ultra Wide Band Cylindrical Antenna Design Using the Green's Function Method (GFM) as an Absorbing Boundary Condition (ABC) and Radiated Field Propagator in a Genetic Optimization Approach", Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 348-354, Feb. 2006.

46. R. Kastner, "A Multi-Dimensional Z-Transform Evaluation of the Discrete Finite Difference Time Domain Green's Function" IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 54, No.4, pp. 1215-1222, April 2006.

47. Amir Boag, Uri Shemer, and Raphael Kastner, "Non-uniform Grid Accelerated Global Boundary Condition for Acoustic Scattering", Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg., 195, pp. 3608-3621, June 2006.

48. B. Finkelstein and R Kastner, "Finite Difference Time Domain Dispersion Reduction Schemes", J. Comput. Phys., vol. 221, no. 1, pp. 422-438, Jan 2007.

49. N. Rospsha and R. Kastner, "Closed Form FDTD-Compatible Greens Function Based on Combinatorics", J. Comput. Phys., (2007), doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2007.05.017.

50. B. Finkelstein and R. Kastner, " A Comprehensive New Methodology for Formulating FDTD Schemes With Controlled Order of Accuracy and Dispersion", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 56, No.11, pp. 3516-3525, Nov. 2008.

51. B. Finkelstein and R. Kastner, " The Spectral Order of Accuracy: A New Unified Tool in the Design Methodology of Excitation-Adaptive Wave Equation FDTD Schemes", J. Comp. Phys., Vol. 228, No. 24. (2009) pp. 8958-8984.

52. S. Malevsky, E. Heyman and R Kastner, " Source Decomposition as a Diakoptic Boundary Condition in FDTD with Reflecting External Regions", IEEE Trans. on Antennas and Propagation, accepted for publication.

Return to: