Plane-Wave Diffraction from Resistive-Filled Circular Hole in Infinite Resistive Plane: An Analytically Regularizing Approach

Abstract

The study of the electromagnetic diffraction from penetrable screens with apertures and/or inhomogeneities is of great relevance today due to the huge number of modern applications in which they are involved. In this paper, the analysis of the plane wave scattering from a resistive-filled circular hole in a resistive plane is addressed. The uniquely solvable boundary value problem for the Maxwell equations, obtained via imposing generalized boundary conditions, power boundedness condition, and Silver–Muller radiation condition, is equivalently formulated in terms of an infinite set of singular dual integral equations in the vector Hankel transform domain. The Helmholtz–Galerkin technique allows for the discretization and, simultaneously, analytical regularization of the obtained integral equations. Fast convergence is guaranteed by a suitable choice of the basis functions reconstructing the physical behavior of the fields at the discontinuity between the two involved media. Moreover, the full-wave nature of the proposed approach allows the direct assessment of near-field and far-field parameters.

Keywords

• inhomogeneous resistive plane
• integral equation formulation
• Helmholtz–Galerkin technique