The Study on a New Approximate Method of Computing Electromagnetic Scattering from Multilayer Rough Sea Surfaces

Abstract:

At high sea states strong winds make the sea surface broken, and become a multilayer-rough sea surface made of a large number of foams and droplets. Similarly, if the sea surface covered by oil and other dirts will also belong to the mutilayer rough sea surfaces of various medium properties. In this paper, applying the Kirchhoff Approximation (KA) and the electromagnetic theory of stratified media, electromagnetic scattering characteristics from a multilayer rough medium surface are calculated. Firstly, a detailed analysis of electromagnetic reflection from multilayer parallel interfaces under different incident angles is carried out. Secondly, combining the preceding two results and courses, electromagnetic scattering from the multilayer random rough surfaces is studied. The computed results are in good agreement with those by using the method of moments (MOM) and reported by some experts. Finally, the random rough sea surface covered by spilling oil or droplets and foams is calculated in detail. Compared with MOM, the new approximate analysis method in the paper can avoid a large matrix inversion, and thus greatly reduce the computation time and improve the computational efficiency.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 533)
• Pages: 268-273
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.533.268
• Online since: February 2014
• Authors: Jia Sheng Tian*, Wan Pan, Jian Shi
• Keywords: Electromagnetic Scattering, KA Method, Multilayer Rough Surfaces, Stratified Media

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