Background: Reducing the detection probability by radar stations for military or civil complex shape objects is very important problem of modern radar theory. The solution to this problem is impossible without numerous estimates of the effective scattering surface (RCS) of the investigated object.
Objectives: The purpose of the work was to analyze and improve the efficiency of methods for modeling electromagnetic scattering on objects of complex shape. The process of constructing a facet model of an complex shape object for modeling electromagnetic scattering and an algorithm to simplify the geometric model of an object to reduce the time required for modeling is considered.
Materials and methods: As the main method for calculating the RCS, we chose the method of rays that fall and reflect (in the English language literature “Shooting and Bouncing Rays” SBR). Wherein the modeling electromagnetic scattering on an complex shape object is based on the methods of physical and geometric optics. Object is represented in the form of a geometric model which takes into account the shape of the object and its electrodynamic properties (reflection coefficient, dielectric and magnetic permeability of the surface, conductivity, etc.).
Results: The general steps of the SBR method are discussed, and the efficient of using the surface mesh method to launch the rays is shown. Effective approaches to simplify the calculation for complex shape objects are proposed, in particular, the use of Raytressing and k-d tree is considered. The using of large facets for modeling surface flat sections of complex shape object is proposed. To assess the effect of the facet size on the accuracy of RCS calculations, we simulated electromagnetic scattering for a triangular plate, the surface of which is represented using different numbers of facets. A comparison with the well-known expressions for a triangular plate RCS is made.
Conclusions: The accelerating possibilities of the process of electromagnetic wave diffraction calculation on complex shape objects are offered. The efficiency of the created algorithms is tested numerically.
NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF COMBINED FIELD INTEGRAL EQUATION FORMULATIONS FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING BY DIELECTRIC AND COMPOSITE OBJECTS
