TY - JOUR
T1 - Reflections, Diffractions, and Surface Waves for an Interior Impedance Wedge of Arbitrary Angle
AU - Griesser, Timothy
AU - Balanis, Constantine
PY - 1989/7
Y1 - 1989/7
N2 - The asymptotic impedance wedge solution for plane wave illumination at normal incidence is examined for interior wedge diffraction. An efficient method for calculating the diffraction coefficient for arbitrary wedge angle is presented as previous calculations were very difficult except for three specific wedge angles for the uniform geometrical theory of diffraction (UTD) expansion. The asymptotic solution isolates the incident, singly reflected, multiply reflected, diffracted, surface wave, and associated surface wave transition fields. Multiply reflected fields of any order are considered. The multiply reflected fields from the exact solution arise as ratios of auxiliary Maliuzhinets functions; however, by using properties of the Maliuzhinets functions, this representation can be reduced to products of reflection coefficients which are much more efficient for calculation. A surface wave transition field is added to the surface wave to retain continuity of the total field at the surface wave boundaries. Computations are presented here for interior wedge diffractions although the formulation is equally valid for both exterior and interior wedges with uniform but different impedances on each face for both soft and hard polarizations. In addition, the accuracy of the high-frequency asymptotic expansion is examined for small diffraction distances by direct comparison of the exact and asymptotic solutions.
AB - The asymptotic impedance wedge solution for plane wave illumination at normal incidence is examined for interior wedge diffraction. An efficient method for calculating the diffraction coefficient for arbitrary wedge angle is presented as previous calculations were very difficult except for three specific wedge angles for the uniform geometrical theory of diffraction (UTD) expansion. The asymptotic solution isolates the incident, singly reflected, multiply reflected, diffracted, surface wave, and associated surface wave transition fields. Multiply reflected fields of any order are considered. The multiply reflected fields from the exact solution arise as ratios of auxiliary Maliuzhinets functions; however, by using properties of the Maliuzhinets functions, this representation can be reduced to products of reflection coefficients which are much more efficient for calculation. A surface wave transition field is added to the surface wave to retain continuity of the total field at the surface wave boundaries. Computations are presented here for interior wedge diffractions although the formulation is equally valid for both exterior and interior wedges with uniform but different impedances on each face for both soft and hard polarizations. In addition, the accuracy of the high-frequency asymptotic expansion is examined for small diffraction distances by direct comparison of the exact and asymptotic solutions.
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U2 - 10.1109/8.29387
DO - 10.1109/8.29387
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0024699812
SN - 0018-926X
VL - 37
SP - 927
EP - 935
JO - IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
JF - IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
IS - 7
ER -