Modified Spherical Wave Functions With Anisotropy Ratio: Application to the Analysis of Scattering by Multilayered Anisotropic Shells

We describe a novel and rigorous vector eigenfunction expansion of electric-type Green's dyadics for radially multi- layered uniaxial anisotropic media in terms of the modified spherical vector wave functions, which can take into account the effects of anisotropy ratio systematically. In each layer, the material constitutions e and epsiv macrmu macr are tensors and distribution of sources is arbitrary. Both the unbounded and scattering dyadic Green's functions (DGFs) for rotationally uniaxial anisotropic media are derived in spherical coordinates (r, thetas, phi). The coefficients of scattering DGFs, based on the coupling recursive algorithm satisfied by the coefficient matrix, are derived and expressed in a compact form. With these DGFs obtained, the electromagnetic fields in each layer are straightforward once the current source is known. A specific model is proposed for the scattering and absorption characteristics of multilayered uniaxial anisotropic spheres, and some novel performance regarding anisotropy effects is revealed.     

Cylindrical vector eigenfunction expansion of Green dyadics for multilayered anisotropic media and its application to four-layered forest

A complete eigenfunction expansion of the dyadic Green's functions (DGFs) for planar, arbitrary multilayered anisotropic media using cylindrical vector wave functions is presented. These formulations are constructed based on the principle of scattering superposition. For the scattering dyadic Green's function in each layer, the scattering coefficients of TE and TM modes are determined from the boundary conditions matched at the planar interfaces. The explicit representation of the DGFs after reduction to the isotropic case agrees well with the existing results corresponding to the isotropic media. The general DGFs for multilayered anisotropic media are then reduced to those for a four-layered forest where the trunk layer is modeled as anisotropic medium. Application is further made for radio-wave propagation through forests of a four-layered geometry, whereas it is shown how these Green dyadic formulations are used in a practical way and how the field distributions due to a dipole can be obtained.     

Spheroidal vector wave eigenfunction expansion of dyadic Green'sfunctions for a dielectric spheroid

The dyadic Green's functions for defining the electromagnetic (EM) fields for the inner and outer regions of a dielectric spheroid are formulated. The dyadic Green's function for an unbounded medium is expanded in terms of the spheroidal vector wave functions and the singularity at source points is extracted. The principle of scattering superposition is then applied into the analysis to obtain the scattering spheroidal dyadic Green's functions due to the existing interface. Coupled equation systems satisfied by scattering (i.e., reflection and transmission) coefficients of the dyadic Green's functions are obtained so that these coefficients can be uniquely solved for. The characteristics of the spheroidal dyadic Green's functions as compared with the spherical and cylindrical Green's dyadics are described and the improper developments of the spheroidal dyadic Green's function for the outer region of a conducting spheroid in the existing work are pointed out     

A general expression of dyadic Green's functions in radiallymultilayered chiral media

A general expression of spectral-domain dyadic Green's function (DGF) is presented for defining the electromagnetic radiation fields in spherically arbitrary multilayered and chiral media. Without any loss of the generality, each of the radial multilayers could be the chiral layer with different permittivity, permeability, and chirality admittance, while both distribution and location of current sources are assumed to be arbitrary. The DGF is composed of the unbounded DGF and the scattering DGF, based on the method of scattering superposition. The scattering DGF in each layer is constructed in terms of the modified and normalized spherical vector wave functions. The coefficients of the scattering DGFs are derived and expressed in terms of the equivalent reflection and transmission coefficients, by applying boundary conditions satisfied by the coefficient matrices     

Dyadic Green's functions inside/outside a dielectric elliptical cylinder: theory and application

Dyadic Green's functions in two regions separated by an infinitely long elliptical dielectric cylinder are formulated in this paper. As an application, the plane electromagnetic wave scattering by an isotropic elliptical dielectric cylinder is revisited by applying these dyadic Green's functions and the scattering-to-radiation transform. First, the dyadic Green's functions are formulated and expanded in terms of elliptical vector wave functions. The general equations are derived from the boundary conditions and expressed in matrix form. Then the scattering and transmission coefficients coupled to each other are solved from the matrix equations. To verify the theory developed and its applicability, we revisit the plane electromagnetic wave scattering (of TE- and TM-polarizations) by an infinitely long elliptical cylinder, and consider it as a special case of electromagnetic radiation using the dyadic Green's function technique. The derived equations and computed numerical results are then compared with published results and a good agreement in each case is found. Special cases where the elliptical cylinder degenerates to a circular cylinder and where the material of the cylinder is isorefractive are also considered, and the same analytical solutions in both cases are obtained.     

Electromagnetic dyadic Green's function in cylindricallymultilayered media

A spectral-domain dyadic Green's function for electromagnetic fields in cylindrically multilayered media with circular cross section is derived in terms of matrices of the cylindrical vector wave functions. Some useful concepts, such as the effective plane wave reflection and transmission coefficients, are extended in the present spectral domain eigenfunction expansion. The coupling coefficient matrices of the scattering dyadic Green's functions are given by applying the principle of scattering superposition. The general solution has been applied to the case of axial symmetry (n=0, n is eigenvalue parameter in φ direction) where the scattering coefficients are decoupled between TM and TE waves. Two specific geometries, i.e., two- and three-layered media that are frequently employed to model the practical problems are considered in detail, and the coupling coefficient matrices of their dyadic Green's functions are given, respectively     

长椭球介质人头模型中的场分布

文中给出一长椭球介质人头模型中的电磁场全波解。运用并矢格林函数和散射叠加原理 ,求解的电磁场表示为椭球矢波函数。导出了在人头模型中的耦合系数 ,最后给出了数字结果的讨论。     

球形分层媒质中并矢格林函数的求解 I:并矢格林函数的推导

首先,在球坐标系下,通过德拜位函数得到均匀各向同性介质中矢量波动方程的解。然后,分析了内、外向波的单界面和多层界面的反射和透射,得到了相应的反射系数和透射系数以及广义反射系数和透射系数。接着,推导了啄源在球形分层介质中的不同位置产生的德拜位。最后,根据得到的德拜位,用球坐标系下的矢量波函数表达出场点在不同位置时的电并矢格林函数和磁并矢格林函数。     

Electromagnetic radiation of antennas in the presence of anarbitrarily shaped dielectric object: Green dyadics and theirapplications

Although numerical solutions to the electromagnetic scattering by an arbitrarily shaped object have been obtained using Waterman's (1971) T-matrix method (TMM), the general electromagnetic radiation due to an antenna of a three-dimensional (3-D) current distribution in the presence of an arbitrarily shaped object has not been well considered. In this paper, the technique of surface integral equations has been employed; and as a result, a terse and analytical representation of the dyadic Green's functions (DGFs) in the presence of an arbitrarily shaped dielectric object is obtained for the antenna radiation. In a form similar to that associated with the electromagnetic radiation in the presence of a dielectric sphere, the DGFs inside and outside of the object of arbitrary shape are expanded in terms of spherical vector wave functions. However, their coefficients are no longer decoupled due to the arbitrary surface of a 3-D object. The coupled coefficients are then determined using the surface integral equation approach, in a fashion similar to that in the T-matrix method. To confirm the applicability and correctness of the approach in this paper a dielectric sphere, as a special case, is utilized as an illustration. It is found that exactly the same expressions as in the rigorous analysis for the inner and outer spherical regions of the object are obtained using the different approaches. As applications of the approach in this paper, radiation problems of an electric dipole in the presence of superspheroids and rotational parabolic bodies are solved     

Method of moments analysis of EM fields in a multilayered spheroid radiated by a thin circular loop antenna

This paper presents derivation and computation of electromagnetic (EM) fields inside a dielectric prolate spheroid radiated by a loop antenna. The dielectric spheroid is considered to be multilayered, and a thin circular loop antenna that is loaded by a voltage source radiates on the top of the prolate spheroid. The multiple interaction of transmitted and reflected waves with the spheroid is characterized by applying the method of moments (MoM) to both the circular loop antenna wire and the stratified spheroidal interfaces. The dyadic Green's function in the expansion form of eigenvector wave functions is used to derive the EM fields, so the formulation is quite compact. Different basis and weighting functions are used inside the method of moments procedure for obtaining in an efficient way the unknown current distributions along the antenna wire and the unknown expansion coefficients of their resulted EM fields. Current distributions and the transmitted fields inside the spheroidal model are computed numerically and the convergence issues are discussed.     

Electromagnetic plane wave scattering by a system of two uniformlylossy dielectric prolate spheroids in arbitrary orientation

By means of modal series expansions of electromagnetic fields in terms of prolate spheroidal vector wave functions, an exact solution is obtained for the scattering by two uniformly lossy dielectric prolate spheroids in arbitrary orientation embedded in free space, the excitation being a monochromatic plane electromagnetic wave of arbitrary polarization and angle of incidence. Rotational-translational addition theorems for spheroidal vector wave functions are employed to transform the outgoing wave from one spheroid into the incoming wave at the other spheroid. The field solution gives the column vector of the unknown coefficients of the series expansions of the scattered and transmitted fields expressed in terms of the column vector of the known coefficients of the series expansions of the incident field and the system matrix which is independent of the direction and polarization of the incident wave. Numerical results in the form of curves for normalized bistatic and monostatic radar cross sections are given for a variety of two-body system of uniformly lossy dielectric prolate spheroids in arbitrary orientation having resonant or near resonant lengths and different distances of separation     

Electromagnetic plane wave scattering by a system of two parallel conducting prolate spheroids

By means of modal series expansions of electromagnetic fields in terms of prolate spheroidal vector wave functions, as exact solution is obtained for the scattering by two perfectly conducting prolate spheroids in parallel configuration, the excitation being a monochromatic plane electromagnetic wave of arbitrary polarization and angle of incidence. Using the spheroidal translational addition theorems recently presented by the authors which are necessary for the two-body (or multibody) scattering solution, an efficient computational algorithm of the translational coefficients is given in terms of spherical translational coefficients. The field solution gives the column vector of the series coefficients of the scattered field in terms of the column vector of the series coefficients of the incident field by means of a matrix transformation in which the system matrix depends only on the scatterer ensemble. This eliminates the need for repeatedly solving a new set of simultaneous equations in order to obtain the scattered field for a new direction of incidence. Numerical results in the form of curves for the bistatic and monostatic radar cross sections are given for a variety of prolate spheroid pairs having resonant or near resonant lengths.     

Scattering of Gaussian Beam by a Conducting Spheroidal Particle with Confocal Dielectric Coating

An analytic solution to the scattering by a coated spheroidal particle, for arbitrary incidence of a Gaussian beam, is constructed by expanding the incident and scattered electromagnetic fields in terms of spheroidal vector wave functions. The unknown expansion coefficients are determined by a system of linear equations derived from the appropriate boundary conditions. Numerical results of the normalized differential scattering cross section of the conducting and coated spheroidal particle are evaluated, and the scattering characteristics are discussed concisely.     

Scattering of electromagnetic waves by a system of two dielectricspheroids of arbitrary orientation

By means of modal series expansion of the incident, scattered, and transmitted electric and magnetic fields in terms of appropriate vector spheroidal eigenfunctions an exact solution is obtained to the problem of electromagnetic scattering by two dielectric spheroids of arbitrary orientation is obtained. The incident wave is considered to be a monochromatic uniform plane electromagnetic wave of arbitrary polarization and angle of incidence. To impose the boundary conditions at the surface of one spheroid, the electromagnetic field scattered by the other spheroids is expressed as an incoming field to the first one, in terms of the spheroidal coordinates attached to it, using rotational-translational addition theorems for vector spheroidal wave functions. The solution of the associated set of algebraic equations gives the unknown expansion coefficients. Numerical results are presented in the form of plots for the bistatic and backscattering cross sections of two lossless prolate spheroids having various axial ratios, center-to-center separations, and orientations     

Spherical wave expansion of the time-domain free-space dyadic Green's function

The importance of expanding Green's functions, particularly free-space Green's functions in terms of orthogonal wave functions is practically self-evident when frequency domain scattering problems are of interest. With the relatively recent and widespread interest in time-domain scattering problems, similar expansions of Green's functions are expected to be useful in the time-domain. In this paper, an expression, expanded in terms of orthogonal spherical vector wave functions, for the time-domain free-space dyadic Green's function is presented and scattering by a perfectly conducting sphere is studied as an application to check numerically the validity and to demonstrate the utility of this expression.     

Electromagnetic wave scattering by a system of two spheroids ofarbitrary orientation

An exact solution to the problem of the scattering of a plane electromagnetic wave by two perfectly conducting arbitrarily oriented prolate spheroids is obtained by expanding the incident and scattered electric fields in terms of an appropriate set of vector spheroidal eigenfunctions. The incident wave is considered to be a monochromatic, uniform plane electromagnetic wave of arbitrary polarization and angle of incidence. To impose the boundary conditions, the field scattered by one spheroid is expressed in terms of its spheroidal coordinates, using rotational-translational addition theorems for vector spheroidal wave functions. The column matrix of the scattered field expansion coefficients is equal to the product of a square matrix which is independent of the direction and polarization of the incident wave, and the column matrix of the known incident-field expansion coefficients. The unknown scattered-field expansion coefficients are obtained by solving the associated set of simultaneous linear equations. Numerical results for the bistatic and backscattering cross sections for prolate spheroids with various axial ratios and orientations are presented     

The three dimensional weak form of the conjugate gradient FFTmethod for solving scattering problems

The problem of electromagnetic scattering by a three-dimensional dielectric object can be formulated in terms of a hypersingular integral equation, in which a grad-div operator acts on a vector potential. The vector potential is a spatial convolution of the free space Green's function and the contrast source over the domain of interest. A weak form of the integral equation for the relevant unknown quantity is obtained by testing it with appropriate testing functions. The vector potential is then expanded in a sequence of the appropriate expansion functions and the grad-div operator is integrated analytically over the scattering object domain only. A weak form of the singular Green's function has been used by introducing its spherical mean. As a result, the spatial convolution can be carried out numerically using a trapezoidal integration rule. This method shows excellent numerical performance     

A weak form of the conjugate gradient FFT method fortwo-dimensional TE scattering problems

The problem of two-dimensional scattering of a transversal electric polarized wave, by a dielectric object is formulated in terms of a hypersingular integral equation, in which a grad-div operator acts on a vector potential. The vector potential is a spatial convolution of the free-space Green's function and the contrast source over the domain of interest. A weak form of the integral equation for the unknown electric flux density is obtained by testing it with rooftop functions. The vector potential is expanded in a sequence of the rooftop functions and the grad-div operator is integrated analytically over the dielectric object domain only. The method shows excellent numerical performance     

Scattering by a conducting spheroidal object with dielectriccoating at axial incidence

An analytic solution of a plane electromagnetic wave scattering by coated prolate spheroidal bodies is obtained, for axial incidence, by expanding the incident and scattered fields in terms of prolate spheroidal vector wave functions. The unknown expansion coefficients are determined by an infinite system of equations derived using appropriate boundary conditions. To solve for the unknown coefficients, the system of equations is truncated by retaining only the first N equations in N unknowns, where N depends on the size of the body and the desired accuracy. Numerical results for the scattering cross section are presented to show the effect of different coatings on the magnitude of the scattered field     

有源随机球粒媒质的非弹性多散射

依据有源分子的等效偶极子模型,本文首先用并矢格林函数方法给出了含有有源分子的单球粒的非弹性散射分析。然后,以建立的随机球状颗粒媒质的弹性多散射理论为基础,导出了含有有源分子的随机球粒媒质的非弹性多散射理论,给出了非弹性多散射场在整个空间的矢量球波函数展开,展开系数可由一组耦合线性方程解得。