%0 Journal Article %A Quesada Pereira, Fernando Daniel %A Boria Esbert, Vicente Enrique %A Pascual García, Juan %A Vidal Pantaleoni, Ana %A Álvarez Melcón , Alejandro %A Gómez Tornero, José Luis %A Gimeno Martínez, Benito %T Efficient Analysis of Arbitrarily Shaped Inductive Obstacles in Rectangular Waveguides Using a Surface Integral Equation Formulation %D 2007 %@ 0018-9480 %U http://hdl.handle.net/10317/8121 %X In this paper, we propose to use the surface integral equation technique for the analysis of arbitrarily shaped plane obstacles in rectangular waveguides, which can contain both metallic and/or dielectric objects. The Green's functions are formulated using both spectral and spatial images series, whose convergence behavior has been improved through several acceleration techniques. Proceeding in this way, the convergence of the series is not attached to the employment of any particular basis or test function, thus consequently increasing the flexibility of the implemented technique. In order to test the accuracy and numerical efficiency of the proposed method, results for practical microwave circuits have been successfully compared with other numerical approaches. %K Teoría de la Señal y las Comunicaciones %K Dielectric resonators %K Green's functions %K Integral equations %K Waveguide components %K Waveguide discontinuities %K 3325 Tecnología de las Telecomunicaciones %~ GOEDOC, SUB GOETTINGEN