Green's function for arbitrarily shaped dielectric bodies of revolution

In this paper, a solution is developed to calculate the electric field at one point in space due to an electric dipole exciting an arbitrarily shaped dielectric body of revolution (BOR). Specifically, the electric field is determined from the solution of coupled surface integral equations (SIE) for the induced surface electric and magnetic currents on the dielectric body excited by an elementary electric current dipole source. Both the interior and exterior fields to the dielectric BOR may be accurately evaluated via this approach. For a highly lossy dielectric body, the numerical Green's function is also obtainable from an approximate integral equation (AIE) based on a surface boundary condition. If this equation is solved by the method of moments, significant numerical efficiency over SIE is realized. Numerical results obtained by both SIE and AIE approaches agree with the exact solution for the special case of a dielectric sphere. With this numerical Green's function, the complicated radiation and scattering problems in the presence of an arbitrarily shaped dielectric BOR are readily solvable by the method of moments.     

Electromagnetic scattering from objects composed of multiplehomogeneous regions using a region-by-region solution

The paper presents an efficient procedure to calculate the electromagnetic field scattered by an inhomogeneous object consisting of N+1 linear isotropic homogeneous regions. The procedure is based on surface integral equation (SIE) formulations and the method of moments. The method of moments (MM) is used to reduce the integral equations for each homogeneous dielectric region into individual matrices. These matrices are each solved for the equivalent electric current in terms of the equivalent magnetic current. A simple algebraic procedure is used to combine these solutions and to solve for the magnetic current on the outer dielectric surfaces of the scatterer. With the magnetic current determined, the electric current on the outer surface of the scatterer is calculated. Because the matrix corresponding to each dielectric region is solved separately, the authors call this procedure the region-by-region method. The procedure is simple and efficient. It requires less computer storage and less execution time than the conventional MM approach, in which all the unknown currents are solved for simultaneously. To illustrate the use of the procedure, the bistatic and monostatic radar cross sections (RCS) of several objects are computed. The computed results are verified by comparison with results obtained numerically using the conventional numerical procedure as well as via the series solution for circular cylindrical structures. The possibility of nonunique solutions has also been investigated     

Analysis of the scattering by dielectric bodies using the SIEformulation

A surface integral equation (SIE) formulation is derived in order to analyze the scattering by a homogeneous dielectric body inside a cavity to which cylindrical waveguides are coupled. Cavity and dielectric body may be arbitrarily shaped; the waveguides may be of arbitrary cross section. Completely closed dielectric-loaded cavities and structures containing metal inserts or magnetic conductors are considered as well. It is shown that the SIE formulation reduces a field problem by one dimension leading to highly efficient algorithms. From numerical results, the influence of surface current expansions is studied. The accuracy of the method is demonstrated by field plots and by the comparison of numerical results to those of other methods     

Calculation of the input impedance of a stripline dipole conformally situated on a dielectric cylinder

A method for calculation of the input impedance of a stripline dipole (SD) conformally situated on a dielectric cylinder is developed. A singular integral equation (SIE) for the unknown current density distribution function on the SD surface is obtained. A numerical method for solution of this SIE is described. The dependence of the input impedance on the SD length is obtained.     

Scattering by arbitrarily cross-sectioned layered, lossy dielectric cylinders

The scattering properties of TM or TE illuminated lossy dielectric cylinders of arbitrary cross section are analyzed by the surface integral equation techniques. The surface integral equations are formulated via Maxwell's equations, Green's theorem, and the boundary conditions. The unknown surface fields on the boundaries are then calculated by flat-pulse expansion and point matching. Once the surface fields are found, scattered field in the far-zone and radar cross section (RCS) are readily determined. RCS thus obtained for circular homogeneous dielectric cylinders and dielectric coated conducting cylinders are found to have excellent agreements with the exact eigenfunction expansion results. Extension to arbitrary cross-sectioned cylinders are also obtained for homogeneous lossy elliptical cylinders and wedge-semicircle cross-sectioned cylinders, with and without a conducting cylinder in its center. RCS dependences on frequency and conductivity as well as the matrix stability problem of this surface integral equation method are also examined.     

Electromagnetic scattering from composite objects using a mixtureof exact and impedance-boundary conditions

Different surface integral equations for characterizing the electromagnetic scattering from a surface impedance object partially coated with dielectric materials are presented. The impedance boundary condition (IBC) is applied on the impedance surface and the exact boundary condition is applied on the dielectric surface. The resulting integral equations are solved for bodies of revolution using the method of moments. The numerical results are compared with the exact solution for a sphere. Other geometries are considered, and their results are verified by comparing results of the numerical solutions which were obtained using different formulations. The internal resonance problem is examined. It is found that the combined field integral equation (CFIE) can be used at any frequency and with any surface impedance     

Scattering from a microstrip patch

A solution to the problem of plane wave scattering by a rectangular microstrip patch on a grounded dielectric substrate is presented. The model does not include the microstrip feed, and thus does not include the so-called "antenna mode" component of the scattering. The solution begins by formulating an electric field integral equation for the surface current density on the microstrip patch. The integral equation is solved using the method of moments. Computed data for the patch radar cross section (RCS) is found to be in close agreement with measurements over a broad frequency range. The microstrip RCS versus frequency consists of a number of large peaks which are identified as impedance or pattern factor resonance peaks.     

A systematic treatment of conducting and dielectric bodies witharbitrarily thick or thin features using the method of moments

A systematic procedure for modeling electromagnetic scattering problems involving bodies with electrically thin features is discussed. The scattering bodies are represented using standard surface integral equation formulations and solutions are obtained via the method of moments (MOM). It is demonstrated that accurate evaluation of the moment matrix elements is critical for obtaining accurate solutions for scatterers having thin features. It is also shown (by numerical example) that some of the various surface integral formulations remain valid and can be used to obtain accurate scattering results for arbitrarily thin dielectric and conducting features. The use of the systematic approach for such problems is illustrated by incorporating the procedures into a two-dimensional (MOM) program. Sample results illustrating the technique's utility and validity are provided     

Improving Conditioning of Electromagnetic Surface Integral Equations Using Normalized Field Quantities

When the surface integral equation method is applied to study electromagnetic scattering by dielectric or composite metallic and dielectric objects, the unknowns, i.e., the electric and magnetic surface current densities, and the elements of the system matrix, are often of the very different scales. As a consequence, the system matrix may have a high (singular value) condition number. An efficient method is presented to balance the unknowns and the integral equations, and the elements of the system matrix, too. The method is based on the use of normalized field quantities and unknowns, and carefully chosen scaling factors. In the case of dielectric and composite objects the condition numbers of the SIE matrices can be reduced with several orders of magnitudes by the developed method. In the case of high contrast objects, or if the frequency is very low, the developed method leads also to a clear improvement on the convergence of iterative solutions     

A method for treating junctions between bodies of revolution andarbitrary surfaces

A method to treat junctions between bodies of revolution (BOR) and arbitrary surfaces is presented. The method is applicable to formulations employing the method of moments to solve surface integral equations for structures consisting of combined BOR and arbitrary surfaces. Harmonic entire domain basis functions are used on the bodies of revolution and triangular surface patches are used on the arbitrary surfaces. A junction is formed by creating a spatially coincident region between a body of revolution and an arbitrary surface. The geometry of the junction region is determined by the arrangement of the triangular surface patches used to form the junction. It determines the accuracy with which the junction currents are modeled. Numerical results are presented to demonstrate the accuracy of the junction models for both radiation pattern and input impedance predictions     

Electromagnetic scattering from a dielectric wedge and the singlehypersingular integral equation

Electromagnetic fields scattered by a finite dielectric wedge are computed using a hypersingular integral equation (HIE). The results are compared with those obtained previously using a singular integral equation (SIE) and with the theory that predicts that the fields near the edge of the wedge behave like static fields. The HIE produces more consistent results than the SIE, probably because the unknown boundary function tends to a constant near the edge instead of diverging. The two numerical methods agree reasonably well, and these results agree only in part with the static field behavior     

TM scattering by a dielectric cylinder in the presence of a half-plane

The problem considered is the transverse magnetic (TM) scattering by a dielectric cylinder in the presence of a perfectly conducting half-plane. An integral equation, involving the half-plane Green's function in its Kernel, is obtained for the equivalent volume currents representing the dielectric cylinder. This integral equation is solved by the method of moments. Numerical results are compared with measurements for the echo width of a dielectric slab on a half-plane. The dielectric slab surface impedance and the fields inside the dielectric are also shown.     

渐近波形估计技术用于介质柱宽角度RCS的计算

基于渐近波开估计（AWE）技术和矩量法（MOM）快速预测任意形状非均匀介质柱体的单站雷达散射截面RCS方向图,采用矩量法求解介质柱的电场积分方程,得到介质柱在某一给定方向入射波照射下的极化电流,然后利用AWE技术将任一角度入射波照射下的极化给定角度附近展开成Taylor级数,通过Pade逼近将Taylor级数转化为有理函数,由此可获得介质柱在任一角度入射波照射下的极化电流,进而计算出RCS方向图。计算结果表明AWE完全能逼近MOM精确计算的曲线,同时可加快计算速度。     

渐近波形估计技术在三维电磁散射问题快速分析中的应用

本文将渐近波形估计技术应用到矩量法中,计算了三维理想导体目标的宽带雷达散射截面(RCS)和单站RCS方向图.用矩量法求解电场积分方程,得到给定频率点、给定方向入射波照射下的导体表面电流密度,应用渐近波形估计技术分别得到频带内任意频率点以及任意角度入射波照射下的导体表面电流密度,进而计算出宽带RCS和单站RCS方向图.计算结果表明渐近波形估计技术与矩量法结合可以逼近矩量法逐点计算的结果,且计算效率大大提高.     

Marching-on-in-Degree Based Time-Domain Magnetic Field Integral Equation Method for Bodies of Revolution

A marching-on-in-degree (MOD) based time-domain magnetic field integral equation method for bodies of revolution (BOR) is proposed and applied to obtain the induced currents on perfectly electric conducting BOR. Before this work, the time-domain integral equation method for BOR based on a marching-on-in-time procedure cannot really reduce the computational cost, since the number of unknowns cannot really be reduced. But it is the unknown reduction that serves as the key point of cost saving in BOR-problems. The method implemented in this letter can really utilize the symmetric property of BOR by applying two sets of entire domain basis functions. One is a set of scaled Laguerre polynomials inherited from common MOD method and used as temporal basis functions. The other is a Fourier series which comes from frequency domain method for solving BOR-problems. The validity, efficiency, and stability of the method are verified by several numerical examples.     

Integral equation analysis of dielectric and conducting bodies ofrevolution in the presence of arbitrary surfaces

A formulation is developed to treat radiation from structures consisting of conducting and/or dielectric bodies of revolution (BOR) in the presence of multiple arbitrary shaped three-dimensional objects. A set of integral equations is developed on the surfaces of the combined structure and the resulting integro-differential equations are solved using the method of moments. On the BOR, harmonic entire domain expansion functions are used for the circumferential dependence, while overlapping sub-domain functions are used to model axial curvature. The arbitrary shaped portions of the structure are modeled using triangular surface patch basis functions. The resulting matrix has a partial block diagonal nature which provides a more economical solution for structures which have some rotational symmetry. The accuracy of the BOR and arbitrary surface formulation is verified using the self-consistency method and measured data     

A surface integral equation approach to the scattering andabsorption of doubly periodic lossy structures

The scattering and absorption of a doubly periodic array of absorbers, either placed in free space, backed by a perfect conductor or by a half-infinite space with the same material properties as the elements forming the array, is analyzed with a surface integral equation approach (SIE). The use of a suitable periodic Green's function as kernel of the SIE reduces the formulation of the problem to a single absorber. A set of equivalent electric and magnetic currents on the surface of the absorber is discretised using Glisson functions and the SIE is solved with Galerkin's method. The validity and flexibility of the SIE approach is exemplified by comparing numerical results with measurement data for a family of commercially available absorbers     

Multiport network description and radiation characteristics ofcoupled dielectric resonator antennas

An efficient procedure is presented to investigate the mutual coupling effects and radiation characteristics of dielectric resonator (DR) antennas operating in an array environment. The procedure is based on the method of moments (MoM) as applied to a system of surface integral equations (SIEs) for the coupling of a dielectric body of revolution (BOR) to a nonBOR geometry. The antenna array elements are situated on a ground plane and fed by coaxial probes. Multiport network impedance parameters computed by this method show good agreement with those obtained by measurement. Computed driving point impedances are given for arrays exhibiting optimum pattern performance in terms of low cross polarization and good pattern symmetry     

应用渐近波形估计技术快速计算宽带雷达散射截面

将渐近波形估计技术应用到矩量法中,计算了任意形状二维理想导体目标的宽带雷达散射截面.计算中使用矩量法和奇异值分解技术求解电场积分方程,得到一展开频率点的表面电流密度,通过Padé近似求出给定频带内任意频率点的表面电流密度分布,进而计算出散射场和雷达散射截面.奇异值分解技术的使用消除了电场积分方程的内谐振问题.对数值计算结果与矩量法逐点求解的结果进行了比较,两者吻合良好,且计算效率提高了约一个数量级.     

广义Cauchy技术加速MOM对介质柱单站RCS的快速求解

本文基于Cauchy技术和矩量法（MOM）快速预测任意截面形状、非均匀介质柱体的单站雷达散射截面（RCS）。首先采用MOM求解介质柱的电场积分方程,得到介质柱在某一给定方向入射波照射下的各低阶矩量的极化电流,然后利用Cauchy技术获得用有理函数模型表示的、在任意角度入射波照射下的极化电流,进而计算出RCS的宽角响应。计算结果表明,Cauchy技术守全能逼近MOM精确计算的曲线,同时可大大加快计算速度。