Application of perturbation techniques to the problem of low-frequency electromagnetic wave scattering from an air-ground interface

Radio Science

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1049-1064

  Vazouras, C N ^a   Yarovoy, A G ^b   Moyssidis, M A ^c   De Jongh, R V ^b   Fikioris, J G ^c   Ligthart, L P ^b  

^a HELLENIC NAVAL ACADEMY   (Greece)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; RADIO LINKS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES;

AIR GROUND INTERFACE; PHASE PERTURBATION METHOD; SMALL PERTURBATION METHOD; TRANSVERSE ELECTRIC POLARIZED WAVE;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES;

BENCHMARK SOLUTIONS; DIFFRACTION PROBLEM; LOW-FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; NUMERICAL COMPARISON; SMALL PERTURBATION METHOD; SMALL SLOPE APPROXIMATION; SURFACE INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PROBLEM;

EID: 0034268854     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999RS002237     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Abramowitz, M., and I. A. Stegun, Handbook of Mathematical Functions, Dover, Mineola, N. Y., 1968.
2. Agarwal, G. S., Relation between Waterman's extended boundary condition and the generalized extinction theorem, Phys. Rev. D Part. Fields, 14 (4), 1168-1171, 1976.
3. Bass, F.G., and I.M. Fuks, Wave Scattering from Statistically Rough Surfaces, Pergamon, Tarrytown, N. Y., 1979.
4. Beckmann, P., and A. Spizzichino, The Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves from Rough Surfaces, Macmillan, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1963.
5. Chuang, S. L., and J. A. Kong, Scattering of waves from periodic surfaces, Proc. IEEE, 69 (9), 1132-1144, 1981.
6. Chuang, S. L., and J. A. Kong, Wave scattering and guidance by dielectric waveguides with periodic surfaces, J. Opt. Soc. Am., 73 (5), 669-679, 1983.
7. Daniels, D. J., Surface-Penetrating Radar, IEE, London, 1996.
8. DeSanto, J. A., Scattering from a perfectly reflecting arbitrary periodic surface: An exact theory, Radio Sci., 16 (6), pp. 1315-1326, 1981.
9. Jiracek, G., Numerical Comparisons of a Modified Rayleigh Approach with Other Rough Surface EM Scattering Solutions, IEEE Trans. Antennas Propagat., AP-21, 393-396, 1973.
10. Kim, Y., E. Rodriguez, and S. L. Durden, A numerical assessment of rough surface scattering theories: Vertical polarization, Radio Sci., 27 (4), 515-527, 1992.
11. Nieto-Vesperinas, M., Depolarization of electromagnetic waves scattered from slightly rough random surfaces: A study by means of the extinction theorem, J. Opt. Soc. Am., 72, 539-547, 1982.
12. Rodriguez, E., and Y. Kim, A unified perturbation expansion for surface scattering, Radio Sci., 27 (1), 79-93, 1992.
13. Rodriguez, E., Y. Kim, and S. L. Durden, A numerical assessment of rough surface scattering theories: Horizontal polarization, Radio Sci., 27 (4), 497-513, 1992.
14. Shen, J. and A. A. Maradudin, Multiple scattering of waves from random rough surfaces, Phys. Rev. B Condens. Matter, 22 (9), 4234-4240, 1980.
15. Voronovich, A. G., Small-slope approximation in wave scattering from rough surfaces, Sov. Phys. JETP Engl. Transl., 62, 65-70, 1985.
16. Voronovich, A. G., Small-slope approximation for electromagnetic wave scattering at a rough interface of two dielectric half-spaces, Waves Random Media, 4, 337-367, 1994.
17. Waterman, P. C., Symmetry, unitarity, and geometry in electromagnetic scattering, Phys. Rev. D Part. Fields, 3 (4), 825-839, 1971.
18. Winebrenner, D., and A. Ishimaru, Investigation of a surface field phase perturbation technique for scattering from rough surfaces, Radio Sci., 20 (2), 161-170, 1985.