Browsing by Subject "Surface fields"

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Computation of surface fields excited on arbitrary smooth convex surfaces with an impedance boundary condition
(2012) Alişan, Burak
Due to an increase in the use of conformal antennas in military and commercial applications, the study of surface fields excited by a current distribution on material coated perfect electric conductor (PEC) surfaces is becoming more important. These surface fields are useful in the efficient evaluation of mutual coupling of conformal slot/aperture antennas as well as in the design/analysis of conformal antennas/arrays which can be mounted on aircrafts, missiles, mobile base stations, etc. On the other hand, impedance boundary condition (IBC) is widely used in surface field problems because it can model a thin material coated (or partially coated) PEC geometry and reduces the complexity of the surface field problem by relating the tangential electric fields to the tangential magnetic fields on the surface. Evaluation of surface fields on the circular cylinder and sphere geometries is a canonical problem and stands as a building block for the general problem of surface fields excited on arbitrary smooth convex surfaces. Therefore, high frequency based asymptotic solutions for the surface fields on a source excited PEC convex surface have been investigated for a long time, and surface fields on such surfaces have been obtained by generalizing the surface field expressions of the PEC cylinder and sphere. In this dissertation, a uniform geometrical theory of diffraction (UTD)-based high frequency asymptotic formulation for the appropriate Green’s function representation pertaining to the surface fields excited by a magnetic current source located on an arbitrary smooth convex surface with an IBC is developed. In the course of obtaining the final UTD-based Green’s function representation, surface field expressions of cylinder and sphere geometries are written in normal, binormal, tangent [(ˆn, ˆb,tˆ)] coordinates and their important parameters such as the divergence factor, the Fock parameter and Fock type integrals are generalized according to the locality of high frequency wave propagation. The surface field expressions for the arbitrary convex impedance surface are then written by blending the sphere and cylinder solutions through blending functions, which are introduced heuristically. Numerical results are selected from singly and doubly curved surfaces. Because of the lack of numerical results for the surface fields for impedance surfaces in the literature, obtained results are compared with those of PEC surfaces in the limiting case where the surface impedance,Zs → 0.
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Efficient computation of nonparaxial surface fields excited on an electrically large circular cylinder with an impedance boundary condition
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2006) Alisan, B.; Ertürk, V. B.; Altintas, A.
An alternative numerical approach is presented for the evaluation of the Fock-type integrals that exist in the uniform geometrical theory of diffraction (UTD)-based asymptotic solution for the nonparaxial surface fields excited by a magnetic or an electric source located on the surface of an electrically large circular cylinder with an impedance boundary condition (IBC). This alternative approach is based on performing numerical integration of the Fock-type integrals on a deformed path on which the integrands are nonoscillatory and rapidly decaying. Comparison of this approach with the previously developed one presented in [1], which is based on invoking the Cauchy's residue theorem by finding the pole singularities numerically, reveals that the alternative approach is considerably more efficient.
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Efficient computation of surface fields excited on a dielectric-coated circular cylinder
(IEEE, 2000-10) Erturk, V. B.; Rojas, R. G.
An efficient method to evaluate the surface fields excited on an electrically large dielectric-coated circular cylinder is presented. The efficiency of the method results from the circumferentially propagating representation of the Green’s function as well as its efficient numerical evaluation along a steepest descent path. The circumferentially propagating series representation of the appropriate Green’s function is obtained from its radially propagating counterpart via Watson’s transformation and then the path of integration is deformed to the steepest descent path on which the integrand decays most rapidly. Numerical results are presented that indicate that the representations obtained here are very efficient and valid even for arbitrary small separations of the source and field points. This work is especially useful in the moment-method analysis of conformal microstrip antennas where the mutual coupling effects are important.
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Efficient computation of surface fields excited on an electrically large circular cylinder with an impedance boundary condition
(2006) Alişan, Burak
An efficient computation technique is developed for the surface fields excited on an electrically large circular cylinder with an impedance boundary condition (IBC). The study of these surface fields is of practical interest due to its applications in the design and analysis of conformal antennas. Furthermore, it acts as a canonical problem useful toward the development of asymptotic solutions valid for arbitrary smooth convex thin material coated/partially material coated surfaces. In this thesis, an alternative numerical approach is presented for the evaluation of the Fock type integrals which exist in the Uniform Geometrical Theory of Diffraction (UTD) based asymptotic solution for the non-paraxial surface fields excited by a magnetic or an electric source located on the surface of an electrically large circular cylinder with an IBC. This alternative approach is based on performing a numerical integration of the Fock type integrals on a deformed path on which the integrands are non-oscillatory and rapidly decaying. Comparison of this approach with the previously developed study presented by Tokg¨oz (PhD thesis, 2002), which is based on invoking the Cauchy’s residue theorem by finding the pole singularities numerically, reveals that the alternative approach is considerably more efficient. Since paraxial solution is a closed-form solution and very efficient in terms of computational time, there is no need for an alternative approach for the evaluation of the paraxial surface fields.