Shadow boundary incremental length diffraction coefficients for perfectly conducting smooth, convex surfaces

Radio Science

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1681-1695

  Yaghjian, Arthur D ^a   Shore, Robert A ^a   Woodworth, Margaret B ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DIFFRACTION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELASTIC WAVES; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; PHYSICAL OPTICS; WAVE PROPAGATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; INTEGRATION; OPTICS; PHYSICS;

BISTATIC SCATTERING; CONDUCTING SURFACES; EIGENFUNCTION SOLUTION; GENERAL EXPRESSION; HIGH FREQUENCY APPROXIMATION; INCREMENTAL LENGTH DIFFRACTION COEFFICIENT; PERFECTLY CONDUCTING CIRCULAR CYLINDERS; PLANE-WAVE SCATTERING;

CIRCULAR CYLINDERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION;

FAR FIELDS; SHADOW BOUNDARY;

EID: 0030286597     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96RS02276     Document Type: Article

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