BISTATIC CROSS SECTIONS OF CYLINDRICAL WIRES

Abstract

Bistatic scattering cross sections of a thin, perfectly conducting cylinder are developed using the variational method. This method was used by Tai (Stanford Research Institute, Tech. Rept. no. 18, March 1951) for obtaining monostatic (back scatter) radar cross sections. Resulting expressions are developed for wires of 3/2 WL/O length or less, where WL/O is the free space wavelength. The wires are assumed to be in air or vacuo. The resulting calculations apply to the case where the incident electric vector lies in the incident plane and the receiving antenna is polarized parallel to the scattering plane.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1961
Accession Number
AD0274150

Entities

People

  • J. T. Debettencourt

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Angle Of Incidence
  • Contracts
  • Electromagnetic Scattering
  • Equations
  • Geometry
  • Integrals
  • Losses
  • Radar Cross Sections
  • Scattering
  • Scattering Cross Sections
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Transmission Loss
  • Transmitters
  • United States
  • Variational Methods
  • Variational Principles

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Electromagnetic Wave Scattering and Antenna Radiation Engineering
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.

Technology Areas

  • Space