A surface integral equation formulation for electromagnetic scattering from a conducting cylinder coated with multilayers of homogeneous materials

Abstract

A surface integral equation formulation is presented for electromagnetic scattering by a conducting cylinder coated with multilayers of homogeneous materials. Each layer may have a nonunity relative permittivity and permeability. Both the TM and TE polarizations are considered. The surface equivalence principle is utilized to model the problem where each layer is replaced by equivalent surface currents residing on the enclosing boundaries. A systematic procedure is developed to generate a set of coupled integral equations for an arbitrary number of layers. The method of moments is invoked to convert these equations into a sparse matrix equation which can be solved using sparse matrix routines. Numerical results are presented to demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method. The performance of the method is compared with that of the volume-surface integral equation formulation where a great saving in memory storage and computation time is achieved. V C 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.

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