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IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Volume 46 Number 3, March 1998

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Numerical Evaluation of Dyadic Diffraction Coefficients and Bistatic Radar Cross Sections for a Perfectly Conducting Semi-Infinite Elliptic Cone

Siegfried Blume and Volker Krebs

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Abstract:

In this paper, the scattering of electromagnetic waves by a perfectly conducting semi-infinite elliptic cone is treated. The exact solution of this boundary value problem in problem-adapted spheroconal coordinates in the form of a spherical multipole expansion is of poor convergence if both the source point and the field point are far away from the cone's tip. Therefore, an appropriate sequence transformation of these series expansions (we apply the Shanks transformation) is necessary to numerically determine the dyadic diffraction coefficients and bistatic radar cross sections (RCS) for an arbitrary elliptic cone. Our far-field data for an elliptic cone, a circular cone, and a plane angular sector are compared with some other results obtained with the aid of quite different methods.

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