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Rough surface scattering via two-way parabolic integral equation

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Spivack, OR 

Abstract

This paper extends the parabolic integral equation method, which is very effective for forward scattering from one-dimensional rough surfaces, to include backscatter. This is done by applying left-right splitting to a modified two-way governing integral operator, to express the solution as a series of Volterra operators; this series describes successively higher-order surface interactions between forward and backward going components, and allows highly efficient numerical evaluation. This and equivalent methods such as ordered multiple interactions have been developed for the full Helmholtz integral equations, but not previously applied to the parabolic Green’s function. Equations are derived for both Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions (TE and TM).

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Keywords

4006 Communications Engineering, 40 Engineering, 4008 Electrical Engineering, 4009 Electronics, Sensors and Digital Hardware

Journal Title

Progress In Electromagnetics Research M

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Journal ISSN

1937-8726
1098-8963

Volume Title

56

Publisher

EMW Publishing
Sponsorship
The first author is grateful to BAE Systems for data and financial support during formative stages of the work.