A numerical method for the solution of electromagnetic wave diffraction problems on perfectly conducting screens
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instance of: scholarly article
title: A numerical method for the solution of electromagnetic wave diffraction problems on perfectly conducting screens
zbMATH Open document ID: 1004.78002
author: S. K. Kanaun
published in: Journal of Computational Physics
publication date: 2002-07-04T00:00:00Z
review text: The author reconsiders the electromagnetic diffraction problems connected with perfectly conducting screens and presents a numerical method in which the key step consists of the approximation by Gaussian functions. The solution of the problem is reduced, as usual, to the determination of the density of surface current, say \(J(x)\), induced on the screen at a set of appropriately chosen surface nodes, namely \(\{x^{(j)}\}\). To this end he approximates the current densities in question by Gaussian functions concentrated on the planes tangent to the screen at the node points, namely \[ J(x)\Omega(x)\approx \sum_j J^{(j)} \varphi_j(x) \omega_j(x). \] Here \(\Omega(x)\) denotes the delta-function concentrated on the screen while \(\omega_j(x)\) stands for the delta-function concentrated on the plane tangent to the screen at the point \(x^{(j)}\). As to \(\varphi_j(x)\), it is defined by \[ \varphi_j(x)= {1\over\pi D}\exp\Biggl(-{|x- x^{(j)}|\over Dh^2}\Biggr), \] where \(D\) is the dimension of the problem (\(D= 2\) or \(D=3\)) while \(h\) is the distance between the consecutive nodes.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 78A45
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 78M25
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 65N38
zbMATH DE Number: 1763681
zbMATH Keywords: electromagnetic diffraction problems
zbMATH Keywords: perfectly conducting screens
zbMATH Keywords: numerical method
reviewed by: Mithat Idemen
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: jcph.2001.6974
OpenAlex ID: W2024766402
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DOI: 10.1006/JCPH.2001.6974
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1763681