Theory of Edge Diffraction in Electromagnetics

This volume is a new revised printing which includes additional comments and incorporates corrections of misprints found in the first printing. It supplements "Fundamentals of the Physical Theory of Diffraction" (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007). Together these two books provide a comprehensive description of the high-frequency asymptotic technique-Physical Theory of Diffraction (PTD) - widely used in antenna design and RCS calculations. This book contains basic original ideas of PTD, examples of its practical application, and its validation by the mathematical theory of diffraction. The derived analytic expressions are convenient for numerical calculations and clearly illustrate the physical structure of the scattered field. This book is an essential resource for researchers involved in designing antennas and RCS calculations. It is also useful for students studying high frequency diffraction techniques. This title covers such topics as: theory of diffraction at black bodies that introduces the Shadow Radiation, a fundamental component of the scattered field; RCS of finite bodies of revolution-cones, paraboloids, etc. -models of construction elements for aircraft and missiles; scheme for measurement of that part of a scattered field which is radiated by the diffraction (so-called nonuniform) currents induced on scattering objects; development of the parabolic equation method for investigation of edge-diffraction; and, new exact and asymptotic solutions in the strip diffraction problems, including scattering at an open resonator. This is a corrected reissue of 0965700178 not a second edition