scholarly journals An Analytical Study of Electromagnetic Deep Penetration Conditions and Implications in Lossy Media through Inhomogeneous Waves

Materials ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 1595 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Baccarelli ◽  
Fabrizio Frezza ◽  
Patrizio Simeoni ◽  
Nicola Tedeschi

This paper illustrates how the penetration of electromagnetic waves in lossy media strongly depends on the waveform and not only on the media involved. In particular, the so-called inhomogeneous plane waves are compared against homogeneous plane waves illustrating how the first ones can generate deep penetration effects. Moreover, the paper provides examples showing how such waves may be practically generated. The approach taken here is analytical and it concentrates on the deep penetration conditions obtained by means of incident inhomogeneous plane waves incoming from a lossless medium and impinging on a lossy medium. Both conditions and constraints that the waveforms need to possess to achieve deep penetration are analysed. Some results are finally validated through numerical computations. The theory presented here is of interest in view of a practical implementation of the deep penetration effect.

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Baccarelli ◽  
Alessandro Calcaterra ◽  
Fabrizio Frezza ◽  
Fabio Mangini ◽  
Nicholas Ricciardella ◽  
...  

AbstractThe deep penetration of electromagnetic waves into lossy media can be obtained by properly generating inhomogeneous waves. In this work, for the very first time, we demonstrate the physical implementation and the practical relevance of this phenomenon. A thorough numerical investigation of the deep-penetration effects has been performed by designing and comparing three distinct practical radiators, emitting either homogeneous or inhomogeneous waves. As concerns the latter kind, a typical Menzel microstrip antenna is first used to radiate improper leaky waves. Then, a completely new approach based on an optimized 3-D horn TEM antenna applied to a lossy prism is described, which may find applications even at optical frequencies. The effectiveness of the proposed radiators is measured using different algorithms to consider distinct aspects of the propagation in lossy media. We finally demonstrate that the deep penetration is possible, by extending the ideal and theoretical evidence to practical relevance, and discuss both achievements and limits obtained through numerical simulations on the designed antennas.


Geophysics ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. WA51-WA62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vlastislav Červený ◽  
Ivan Pšenčík

We study behavior of attenuation (inhomogeneity) angles [Formula: see text], i.e., angles between real and imaginary parts of the slowness vectors of inhomogeneous plane waves propagating in isotropic or anisotropic, perfectly elastic or viscoelastic, unbounded media. The angle [Formula: see text] never exceeds the boundary attenuation angle [Formula: see text]. In isotropic viscoelastic media [Formula: see text]; in anisotropic viscoelastic media [Formula: see text] may be greater than, equal to, or less than [Formula: see text]. Plane waves with [Formula: see text] do not exist. Because [Formula: see text] in anisotropic viscoelastic media is usually not known a priori, the commonly used specification of an inhomogeneous plane wave by the attenuation angle [Formula: see text] may lead to serious problems. If [Formula: see text] is chosen close to [Formula: see text] or even larger, indeterminate, unstable or even nonphysical results are obtained. We study properties of [Formula: see text] and show that the approach based on the mixed specification of the slowness vector fully avoids the problems mentioned above. The approach allows exact determination of [Formula: see text] and removes instabilities known from the use of the specification of the slowness vector by [Formula: see text]. For [Formula: see text], the approach yields zero phase velocity, i.e., the corresponding wave is a nonpropagating wave mode. The use of the mixed specification leads to the explanation of the deviation of [Formula: see text] from [Formula: see text] as a consequence of different orientations of energy-flux and propagation vectors in anisotropic media. The approach is universal; it may be used for isotropic or anisotropic, perfectly elastic or viscoelastic media, and for homogeneous and inhomogeneous waves, including strongly inhomogeneous waves, like evanescent waves.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-114
Author(s):  
Михаил Савин ◽  
Mihail Savin ◽  
Юрий Израильский ◽  
Yuriy Izrailsky

This paper considers anomalies in the magnetotelluric field in the Pc3 range of geomagnetic pulsations. We report experimental data on Pc3 field recordings which show negative (from Earth’s surface to air) energy fluxes Sz<0 and reflection coefficients |Q|>1. Using the model of inhomogeneous plane wave (Chetaev’s model), we try to analytically interpret anomalies of energy fluxes. We present two three-layer models with both electric and magnetic modes satisfying the condition |Qh|>1. Here we discuss a possibility of explaining observable effects by the resonance interaction between inhomogeneous plane waves and layered media.


Author(s):  
N. H. Scott

Inhomogeneous small-amplitude plane waves of (complex) frequency ω are propagated through a linear dissipative material which displays hereditary viscoelasticity. The energy density, energy flux and dissipation are quadratic in the small quantities, namely, the displacement gradient, velocity and velocity gradient, each harmonic with frequency ω , and so give rise to attenuated constant terms as well as to inhomogeneous plane waves of frequency 2 ω . The quadratic terms are usually removed by time averaging but we retain them here as they are of comparable magnitude with the time-averaged quantities of frequency ω . A new relationship is derived in hereditary viscoelasticity that connects the amplitudes of the terms of the energy density, energy flux and dissipation that have frequency 2 ω . It is shown that the complex group velocity is related to the amplitudes of the terms with frequency 2 ω rather than to the attenuated constant terms as it is for homogeneous waves in conservative materials.


Geophysics ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 49 (9) ◽  
pp. 1495-1505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Tygel ◽  
Peter Hubral

Point source responses from a planar acoustic and/or elastic layer boundary (as well as from a stack of planar parallel layers) are generally obtained by using as a starting point the Sommerfeld‐Weyl integral, which can be viewed as decomposing a time‐harmonic spherical source into time‐harmonic homogeneous and inhomogeneous plane waves. This paper gives a powerful extension of this integral by providing a direct decomposition of an arbitrary transient spherical source into homogeneous and inhomogeneous transient plane waves. To demonstrate with an example the usefulness of this new point source integral representation, a transient solution is formulated for the reflected/transmitted response from a planar acoustic reflector. The result is obtained in the form of a relatively simple integral and essentially corresponds to the solution obtained by Bortfeld (1962). It, however, is arrived at in a physically more transparent way by strictly superimposing the reflected/transmitted transient waves leaving the interface in response to the incident transient homogeneous and inhomogeneous plane waves coming from the center of the point source.


Wave Motion ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Lauriks ◽  
Jean F. Allard ◽  
Claude Depollier ◽  
André Cops

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