Scattering of electromagnetic pulse waves by conducting wedge in uniaxially anisotropic plasma

Asymptotic expansion for the transient response of radiation fields due to electric dipole located above the conducting wedge with an arbitrary angle embedded in a simple plasma is derived by using the saddle point method of integration. The transient time, which is defined as the time required to reach steady state, is discussed for various kinds of wedge angles and plasma frequencies.     

Scattering of electromagnetic waves by a layer of air plasma surrounding a conducting cylinder

In this paper, the total scattering and back-scattering cross-sections (respectively represented by σ and σ_b) of an air plasma layer surrounding a conducting cylinder are studied. The plasma layer can be turned ON and OFF to allow for a comparison between the scattering cross-section of the bare cylinder and the plasma covered cylinder. The plasma layer is generated at atmospheric pressure, which results in a very highly collisional case. The scattered fields are calculated using a cylindrical expansion, with coefficients satisfying the appropriate boundary conditions, and which are a function of the refractive index of the air plasma. The results of our study are presented as plots of the total scattering cross-section, σ, and back-scattering cross-section, σ_b, versus frequency. The scattering cross-section gives an average characteristic of the scattering process from obstacles. Once the scattering cross-section is known, the actual scattered energy per unit length per second can be calculated by multiplying σ by the incident energy per unit area per second.     

Scattering of electromagnetic plane waves by a circular cylinder

Numerical investigation of scattering electromagnetic plane waves by a circular conducting cylinder is considered. The results presented are 1) validity of asymptotic far-field expressions when it is applied to calculate near-field around the cylinder and 2) equicontours of amplitude and phase of total field around the cylinder.     

阻抗球涂覆均匀等离子体电磁散射的解析解

均匀无源各向异性等离子体介质中的电磁场是第一、第二类各向异性等离子体球矢量波函数的线性叠加,在阻抗球表面满足阻抗边界条件、等离子体与自由空间表面满足电磁场切向连续的边界条件,可得出各向异性等离子体涂覆阻抗球在平面波入射情况下,均匀等离子体介质中电磁场用各向异性等离子体球矢量波函数表示的系数满足的矩阵方程,进而得出散射场由球矢量波函数展开的展开系数和雷达散射截面.数值计算的结果表明:当阻抗球的半径趋于0时,其结果和均匀各向异性等离子体球对平面波的电磁散射结果相同.最后还给出了一些数值计算的结果.     

Scattering of electromagnetic waves by rough perfectly conducting circular cylinders

A numerical method is proposed for computing the normalized correlation functions of the real and imaginary parts of the field scattered from a statistically rough perfectly conducting circular cylinder. The deviation of the surface from its mean radius is assumed to be small. The correlation function of the far-field is related to the correlation function of the scattering object by an integral equation. Far-field correlation functions are found for two types of surface correlation functions: the delta function and a periodic exponential function.     

Scattering from a coated perfect electromagnetic conducting elliptic cylinder

An exact analytic solution is presented to the problem of scattering from a coated perfect electromagnetic conducting (PEMC) elliptic cylinder, when it is illuminated by a plane wave as well as a line source. The problem is formulated by expanding the various fields in terms of appropriate angular and radial Mathieu functions and a set of expansion coefficients. The expansion coefficients associated with the incident fields are known, but those associated with the scattered fields and the fields within the coating are unknown. Imposing boundary conditions at the surface of the PEMC elliptic cylinder and the surface of the coating, enables the determination of the unknown expansion coefficients. Results are presented in the form of normalized scattering widths for elliptic cylinders of various sizes, PEMC admittances, and different coatings, to show the effects of these on scattering.     

Scattering of electromagnetic waves by arrays of conducting and dielectric cylinders

A method is developed that enables the solution of scattering by a finite number of cylinders in a convenient and accurate form. It is based on an analytic formulation using the boundary value problem and an application of a point matching technique. The method is then applied to study the scattering properties of both conducting and dielectric cylinders. It is also used to determine the size and spacing of passive scatterers to improve the directivity of linear antennas. In the latter case, a combination of the present method and a space perturbation technique is utilized to optimize the antenna gain.     

Scattering of electromagnetic waves from dielectric coated conducting spheres

Several series of rigorous numerical calculations of the backscatter cross section of a conducting sphere with a thin lossless dielectric coating were carried out. The ratio of the radius to wavelength was varied from about 0.02 to 10.0; the dielectric constant of the coating was taken to be 2.56, 4.0, or 6.0; and the thickness of the coating was 0.1 or 0.05 times the outer radius of the coated sphere. Curves of the results are presented which indicate that the backscatter cross section of a coated sphere may be increased by as much as a factor of ten over that of an uncoated sphere of the same size, and, due to interference effects, an even greater decrease may be obtained. Further, small changes (less than one per cent) in the thickness or dielectric constant of the coating, or in the wavelength, may bring about large changes in the cross section. The numerical results are also compared with some experimental measurements, and with predictions of a "creeping-wave" type of analysis carried out by Helstrom.     

Scattering of plane waves by an anisotropic dielectric half-plane

Scattering of plane waves by a semi-infinite anisotropic thin dielectric layer is investigated, which can be considered as an example for electromagnetic energy absorbing materials. A pair of second-order boundary conditions is used to simulate an anisotropic thin dielectric layer as an infinitesimally thin sheet. Formulation is based on the Fourier integral transform technique, which reduces the scattering problem to two decoupled scalar Wiener-Hopf equations. Diffracted, reflected, and transmitted field terms are evaluated by using the Wiener-Hopf solutions that is obtained by the standard method. The uniqueness of the solution is satisfied by imposing an edge constraint in addition to the classical edge condition     

Electromagnetic scattering from anisotropic plasma-coated perfect electromagnetic conductor cylinders

The scattering of electromagnetic waves by a perfect electromagnetic conductor (PEMC) cylinder coated with a homogeneous plasma anisotropic material is studied in this paper. Both of the transverse electric and the transverse magnetic polarizations of the incident waves have been analyzed and formulated. The presented analysis and formulations are general for any perfect conductor cylinder (PEC, PMC, or PEMC) with general isotropic/anisotropic material coatings that include plasma and metamaterials. The co-polarized and the cross-polarized components of the scattered fields are computed for different cases of the anisotropic plasma coated PEMC cylinders and for an anisotropic plasma column. Bistatic echo widths for the cases of PEMC, PEC (perfect electric conductor) and PMC (perfect magnetic conductor) cores have been computed and compared. The behavior of the monostatic echo width with the variation of the admittance parameter for the co-polarized and the cross polarized fields is also investigated. The comparisons of the computed results of the presented formulations with the published results of some special cases confirm the accuracy of the presented analysis.     

Scattering of long waves by a cylinder with an inhomogeneous sheath

This note deals with a perfectly conducting infinitely long circular cylinder coated with a radially stratified sheath. Scattering of normally incident plane electromagnetic waves is considered at low frequencies, and a resonance condition is derived.     

Scattering by an infinite cylinder coated with an inhomogeneous and anisotropic plasma sheath

The problem of the interaction of an incidentHwave with an infinite conducting cylinder coated with an inhomogeneous and anisotropic plasma sheath is treated analytically. Numerical results for the farfield pattern of the scattered field as well as the backscattering cross sections are presented for various interesting ranges of the parameters involved. Detailed discussion of the effects of the impressed static magnetic field, the sheath thickness, and the density and profile of the plasma sheath on the scattered wave is also presented. A parabolic electron density profile is assumed.     

Resonant scattering from a conducting cylinder clad with an anisotropic plasma

The scattering of an electromagnetic wave from a conducting cylinder clad with an anisotropic plasma of arbitrary electron density is considered, and the eigenfunction solution is obtained. The resonant behavior of the system is investigated. The resonant conditions are obtained, and damping of the resonant scattering by finite size effects and collisional dissipation is studied. The Rayleigh and geometrical optics limiting cases are derived, and the approach of the plasma scattering to that from a metallic body for increasing plasma frequency (electron density) is obtained. Comparisons with the scattering from an unclad cylinder and from a planar conductor sheathed with a plasma are made.     

Scattering of electromagnetic waves by a rotating electron-plasma column

The scattering of a plane electromagnetic wave by an electron-plasma column rotating around its axis in the presence of a static magnetic field is discussed on the basis of Maxwell's equations and the constitutive relations for a rotating electron plasma derived from the electron-theoretical consideration. For two special cases, that where a plane wave is normally incident upon a rotating electron-plasma column without axial drift and that where a plane wave is obliquely incident upon an electron-plasma column rotating with the Larmor frequency and drifting in the axial direction, the scattering properties of a rotating electron-plasma column are investigated in detail with the aid of numerical examples. From the numerical examples for the backscattering cross section and the scattering pattern, it is found that there appear various interesting phenomena that are characteristic of a rotating electron-plasma column.     

厄米-高斯波束对各向异性圆柱的散射特性研究

为了研究厄米-高斯波束在各向异性媒质中的散射特性，采用了将各向异性圆柱的散射场和内部场用圆柱矢量波函数展开，应用电磁场边界条件和投影法，提出了一种分析单轴各向异性圆柱对厄米-高斯波束散射特性研究的精确半解析方法; 获得了厄米-高斯波束通过单轴各向异性圆柱的内场以及近场的归一化强度分布图; 对两种不同的厄米高斯波束入射情形做出了分析和对比。结果表明，两种波束在通过圆柱后都有入射波和反射波叠加而成的驻波现象，而TEM₁₀(x′)模式厄米-高斯波束入射后近场强度增强，且有明显的折射现象。该研究结果对厄米-高斯波束的应用具有一定的参考价值。     

大气带电粒子对电磁波的散射研究

研究大气中带电粒子对电磁波的散射特性,对利用遥感方法雷达探测云层、雷电预警、分析沙尘对电磁波传播的影响等具有重要意义。从宏观和微观两个方面分析了瑞利散射条件下大气粒子带电对电磁波散射的影响。宏观和微观分别反映了电磁波散射的两种机制,分别对应的是受电场作用后电荷运动形成宏观电流对电磁波的散射,以及单个电荷（电子）受电场作用后在平衡位置附近振动而引起的电磁散射。通过对比中性粒子和所带电荷对电磁波的散射截面量级,分析了大气粒子带电后对电磁波散射的影响。研究表明：宏观上粒子所带电荷对电磁波的散射没有影响,而微观上,在某些频率附近,粒子所带电荷会对电磁波的散射产生较大影响。     

JEC-FDTD for 2-D conducting cylinder coated by anisotropic magnetized plasma

The JE convolution finite-difference-time-domain (JEC-FDTD) method is extended to the anisotropic magnetized plasma which incorporates both anisotropy and frequency dispersion at the same time, enabling the transient solution of the electromagnetic wave propagation in anisotropic magnetized plasmas. Two-dimensional JEC-FDTD formulations for magnetized plasma are derived. The back scattering radar cross section (RCS) of a perfectly conducting cylinder coated by a layer of magnetized plasmas is calculated.     

各向异性材料部分涂覆导体的散射特性研究

利用物理光学法(PO)与有限元法(FEM)混合方法,研究了有各向异性媒质局部涂覆的电大导体目标的电磁散射问题.在有复杂媒质涂覆的电小结构区域采用有限元法,在未涂覆媒质的电大导体区域采用物理光学法结合等效电磁流法.将两部分区域的边界进行消隐处理,考虑耦合效应,并利用共同的等相位面,将不同区域产生的散射场矢量叠加得到总散射场.文中的实例结果与传统的FEM很好的一致,说明了该方法的有效性和精确性.     

Scattering of electromagnetic waves from moving surfaces

Electromagnetic wave scattering from moving objects is considered. Use is made of the reformulated current method in which the object is replaced by a current distribution radiating into an unbounded media. Cylindrical and spherical profiles in nondeterministic motion are considered. Results are obtained for far-field and steady-state cases when the radii of curvature are large compared to the wavelength.