INVESTIGATIONS IN THE THEORY OF ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING FROM EXPANDING DIELECTRIC OBSTACLES.

Abstract

An equation for the reflection which results when an expanding dielectric slab scatters normally incident plane electromagnetic waves is derived using the invariant imbedding concept. The equation is solved approximately and the character of the solution is investigated. Also, an equation for the radiation transmitted through such a slab is similarly obtained. An alternative formulation of the slab problem is presented which is applicable to the analogous problem in spherical geometry. The form of an equation for the modal reflections from a nonrelativistically expanding sphere is obtained and some salient features of the solution are described. In all cases the material is assumed to be a nondispersive, nonmagnetic dielectric whose rest frame properties are slowly varying. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0695828

Entities

People

  • Roland J. Pogorzelski

Organizations

  • California Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Electromagnetic Scattering
  • Equations
  • Geometry
  • Materials
  • Personality
  • Radiation
  • Reflection
  • Scattering

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics