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On a transformation of use in multiple scattering problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

R. F. Millar
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Electromagnetic Theory, The Technical University of Denmark Lyngby, Denmark

Extract

In a recent communication ((5)), Skal'skaya has considered the interesting two-dimensional problem of the diffraction of a plane E-polarized electromagnetic wave by two perfectly conducting half-planes, inclined with respect to each other. For simplicity, a symmetric case was studied; thus the current densities on the two half-planes were identical, and it was necessary to determine only one function. By expressing the scattered field in terms of the induced current density, and by imposing the (Dirichlet) boundary condition satisfied on the half-planes, Skal'skaya derived an integral equation of the first kind for the unknown density. This was transformed into an equation of the second kind (a more suitable starting point for iterative procedures) by an application of the Kontorovich–Lebedev integral transform. The free term in the new equation was the solution for an isolated half-plane and, by iteration, an approximate solution was obtained.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1965

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