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IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume 46 Number 1, January 1998

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Forward-Backward Method for Scattering from Imperfect Conductors

Dennis Holliday, Lester L. DeRaad, Jr., and Gaetan J. St-Cyr

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Abstract:

The previously developed forward-backward method for calculating scattering from perfectly conducting azimuthally homogeneous surfaces is extended to imperfect conductors, where the dielectric constant has a large imaginary part such as sea water at X-band (10 GHz). An example shows that highly accurate results at X-band are obtained for the case of a steepened sea wave.

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