Volume Equivalent SBR Method for Electromagnetic Scattering of Dielectric and Composite Objects

• Published in: IEEE transactions on antennas and propagation Vol. 69; no. 5; pp. 2842 - 2852
• Main Authors: Huang, Yuan, Zhao, Zhiqin, Li, Xianjin, Nie, Zaiping, Liu, Qing-Huo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.05.2021; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Dielectric and composite objects; Dielectrics; Electromagnetic radiation; Electromagnetic scattering; Electron tubes; Equivalence; Integral equations; Ray tracing; Reflection; shooting and bouncing ray (SBR); Surface waves; volume equivalence principle; volume equivalent SBR (VESBR); Wave propagation; Wave reflection
• ISSN: 0018-926X; 1558-2221
• DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2020.3027873

A volume equivalent shooting and bouncing ray (VESBR) method is proposed to analyze the electromagnetic scattering of dielectric and composite objects with thick dielectric medium. Different from traditional high-frequency methods which utilize surface sources, this VESBR considers the propagation of electromagnetic waves inside the dielectric media and introduces volume equivalent sources to calculate the scattering fields. Compared with traditional methods, two different problems need to be solved in this method, i.e., the ray tracing on dielectric boundary and the volume integral in ray tube. For ray tracing process, a refined formula is proposed to acquire the information of reflection waves and transmission waves on dielectric boundary. For volume integral in ray tube, the integral is transformed to five surface integrals based on Gauss's law. The simulations of four cases show that the results of VESBR agree well with those of surface integral equation (SIE), while the computation time and the required memory of VESBR are much less than those of SIE.