Rapidly convergent quasi-periodic Green functions for scattering by arrays of cylinders—including Wood anomalies

Abstract

This paper presents a full-spectrum Green-function methodology (which is valid, in particular, at and around Wood-anomaly frequencies) for evaluation of scattering by periodic arrays of cylinders of arbitrary cross section—with application to wire gratings, particle arrays and reflectarrays and, indeed, general arrays of conducting or dielectric bounded obstacles under both transverse electric and transverse magnetic polarized illumination. The proposed method, which, for definiteness, is demonstrated here for arrays of perfectly conducting particles under transverse electric polarization, is based on the use of the shifted Green-function method introduced in a recent contribution (Bruno & Delourme 2014 J. Computat. Phys. 262 , 262–290 ( doi:10.1016/j.jcp.2013.12.047 )). A certain infinite term arises at Wood anomalies for the cylinder-array problems considered here that is not present in the previous rough-surface case. As shown in this paper, these infinite terms can be treated via an application of ideas related to the Woodbury–Sherman–Morrison formulae. The resulting approach, which is applicable to general arrays of obstacles even at and around Wood-anomaly frequencies, exhibits fast convergence and high accuracies. For example, a few hundreds of milliseconds suffice for the proposed approach to evaluate solutions throughout the resonance region (wavelengths comparable to the period and cylinder sizes) with full single-precision accuracy.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2017
Source ID
10.1098/rspa.2016.0802

Entities

People

  • Agustin G. Fernandez-lado
  • Oscar Bruno

Organizations

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  • National Science Foundation Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences
  • Office of Naval Research

Tags

Readers

  • Fluid Dynamics.
  • Phased Array Antenna Design.
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics