Propagation of electromagnetic waves in a density-modulated plasma

1991 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurizio Lontano ◽  
Nicolai Lunin

The properties of electromagnetic wave propagation in a uniformly densitymodulated plasma are studied, starting from a unidimensional scalar wave (Hill) equation for the wave electric field. Introduction of the formalism of the spatial propagator Q(z2, z1), from the point z1 to the point z2 allows reduction of the problem to determination of the propagator relevant to a single plasma layer that constitutes the entire periodic structure. The transmission coefficient of a single layer can be computed for any kind of density profile by means of the Magnus approximation, satisfying energy flux conservation at each order in the relevant expansion. The appearance of ‘forbidden zones’ in parameter space leads to the possibility that the incident electromagnetic wave can be partially or completely reflected if a sufficient number of periods are present. The explicit computation of the transmission coefficient for a series of n successive layers confirms this effect as the result of a ‘resonant’ interaction of the incident wave and the ‘periodicity’ of the medium.

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-156
Author(s):  
Z. Mechbal ◽  
A. Khamlichi

Composites made from E-glass/epoxy or aramid/epoxy are frequently used in aircraft and aerospace industries. These materials are prone to suffer from the presence of delamination, which can reduce severely the performance of aircrafts and even threaten their safety. Since electric conductivity of these composites is rather small, they can propagate electromagnetic waves. Detection of delamination damage can then be monitored by using an electromagnetic penetrating radar scanner, which consists of emitting waves having the form of short time pulses that are centered on a given work frequency. While propagating, these waves undergo partial reflection when running into an obstacle or a material discontinuity. Habitually, the radar is moved at constant speed along a straight path and the reflected signal is processed as a radargram that gives the reflected energy as function of the two-way time and the antenna position.In this work, modeling of electromagnetic wave propagation in composites made from E-glass/epoxy was performed analytically. The electromagnetic wave reflection from a delamination defect was analyzed as function of key intervening factors which include the defect extent and depth, as well as the work frequency. Various simulations were performed and the obtained results have enabled to correlate the reflection pattern image features to the actual delamination defect characteristics which can provide quantification of delamination.


1999 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. GONG

A dispersion equation is derived for a cylindrical waveguide of circular cross-section partially filled with chiroplasma. The propagation characteristics of electromagnetic waves in the family of waveguide modes are studied. The dispersion curves are given. It is found that the propagation constant changes almost linearly with the chirality admittance for the parameters that we choose, and increases with increasing filled area.


1993 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. T. Ivanov ◽  
K. M. Ivanova ◽  
E. G. Alexov

Electromagnetic wave propagation along the interface between a magnetoactive plasma and a metallic screen is investigated analytically and numerically. It is shown that the waves have a Rayleigh character: they are superpositions of two partial waves. It is concluded that electromagnetic waves propagate only at frequencies lower than min (ωp, ωc), where ωpis the plasma frequency and ωcis the cyclotron frequency. The field topology is found, and the physical character of the waves is discussed.


2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (08n09) ◽  
pp. 1782-1787 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heoung Jae Chun ◽  
Hyun Su Shin

The propagation of electromagnetic waves in the foam core sandwich structures is highly affected by anisotropic permittivity and loss tangent of composite skins. Even though many investigations were focused on the propagation of electromagnetic waves in the composite materials in last several decades, little investigations were carried out to understand adequately the propagation of the electromagnetic waves in the foam core sandwich structures. In this study, the transmittance of the arbitrary linearly polarized incident TEM waves through the solid composite laminate with various stacking sequences and foam core sandwich structures with composite skins was calculated as functions of fiber orientation of composites and incident angle of the wave by the analytical model.


2011 ◽  
Vol 301-303 ◽  
pp. 1417-1421
Author(s):  
Shan Hua Yao ◽  
Xian Liang Wu

In this paper ,the mine tunnels is regard as wave-guide which contains kinds of un-beneficial medium, we have study the formulas of electromagnetic waves propagation attenuation and roughness attenuation, the relations between propagation attenuation and roughness and frequency were simulated. The results show that the influence of propagation attenuation in lower frequency is more obvious, and roughness attenuation is increased rapidly as roughness of coal mine tunnels increasing. But tilted attenuation is stronger than roughness attenuation as propagation frequency increasing.


2009 ◽  
Vol 106 (4) ◽  
pp. 043301 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Thoma ◽  
D. V. Rose ◽  
C. L. Miller ◽  
R. E. Clark ◽  
T. P. Hughes

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene Smolkin

The propagation of monochromatic electromagnetic waves in metal circular cylindrical dielectric waveguides filled with inhomogeneous medium is considered. The physical problem is reduced to solving a transmission eigenvalue problem for a system of ordinary differential equations. Spectral parameters of the problem are propagation constants of the waveguide. Numerical results are found with a projection method. The comparison with known exact solutions (for particular values of parameters) is made.


2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (18) ◽  
pp. 185602 ◽  
Author(s):  
A V Bogatskaya ◽  
N V Klenov ◽  
M V Tereshonok ◽  
S S Adjemov ◽  
A M Popov

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