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Electromagnetic scattering from a cavity embedded in an impedance ground plane
Author(s) -
Du Kui,
Li Buyang,
Sun Weiwei,
Yang Huanhuan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
mathematical methods in the applied sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1099-1476
pISSN - 0170-4214
DOI - 10.1002/mma.5239
Subject(s) - scattering , mathematical analysis , mathematics , boundary value problem , ground plane , plane (geometry) , electrical impedance , bounded function , uniqueness , dirichlet boundary condition , aperture (computer memory) , geometry , physics , optics , antenna (radio) , acoustics , telecommunications , quantum mechanics , computer science
This paper is concerned with time‐harmonic electromagnetic scattering from a cavity embedded in an impedance ground plane. The fillings (which may be inhomogeneous ) do not protrude the cavity and the space above the ground plane is empty. This problem is obviously different from those considered in previous work where either perfectly conducting boundary conditions were used or the cavity was assumed to be empty. By employing the Green's function method, we reduce the scattering problem to a boundary‐value problem in a bounded domain (the cavity), with impedance boundary conditions on the cavity walls and an impedance‐to‐Dirichlet condition on the cavity aperture. Existence and uniqueness of the solution are proved for the weak formulation of the reduced problem. We also propose a numerical method to calculate the radar cross section (RCS), which is a parameter of physical interest. Numerical experiments show that the proposed model and numerical method are efficient for the calculation of RCS from cavities.