Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves

Leung Tsang is the author of Scattering of Electromagnetic Waves: Numerical Simulations, published by Wiley. Jin Au Kong was an American expert in applied electromagnetics. He was a 74th-generation lineal descendent of the famous Chinese philosopher Confucius.

"this graduate textbook presents numerical simulation techniques and results for electromagnetic wave scattering in random media and rough surfaces..." (SciTech Book News, Vol. 25, No. 3, September 2001)

• PREFACE xixCHAPTER 1 MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS OF LAYERED MEDIA 11 One-Dimensional Layered Media with Permittivity Fluctuations 22 Random Discrete Layering and Applications 8CHAPTER 2 INTEGRAL EQUATION FORMULATIONS AND BASIC NUMERICAL METHODS 131 Integral Equation Formulation for Scattering Problems 142 Method of Moments 233 Discrete Dipole Approximation (DDA) 274 Product of Toeplitz Matrix and Column Vector 375 Conjugate Gradient Method 46CHAPTER 3 SCATTERING AND EMISSION BY A PERIODIC ROUGH SURFACE 611 Dirichlet Boundary Conditions 622 Dielectric Periodic Surface: T-Matrix Method 683 Scattering of Waves Obliquely Incident on Periodic Rough Surfaces: Integral Equation Approach 854 Ewald's Method 93CHAPTER 4 RANDOM ROUGH SURFACE SIMULATIONS 1111 Perfect Electric Conductor (Non-Penetrable Surface) 1142 Two-Media Problem 1373 Topics of Numerical Simulations 1544 Microwave Emission of Rough Ocean Surfaces 1635 Waves Scattering from Real-Life Rough Surface Profiles 166CHAPTER 5 FAST COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR SOLVING ROUGH SURFACE SCATTERING PROBLEMS 1771 Banded Matrix Canonical Grid Method for Two-Dimensional Scattering for PEC Case 1792 Physics-Based Two-Grid Method for Lossy Dielectric Surfaces 1963 Steepest Descent Fast Multipole Method 2124 Method of Ordered Multiple Interactions (MOMI) 2425 Physics-Based Two-Grid Method Combined with the Multilevel Fast Multipole Method 249CHAPTER 6 THREE-DIMENSIONAL WAVE SCATTERING FROM TWO-DIMENSIONAL ROUGH SURFACES 2671 Scattering by Non-Penetrable Media 2702 Integral Equations for Dielectric Surfaces 2933 Two-Dimensional Rough Dielectric Surfaces with Sparse Matrix Canonical Grid Method 3044 Scattering by Lossy Dielectric Surfaces with PBTG Method 3265 Four Stokes Parameters Based on Tangential Surface Fields 3506 Parallel Implementation of SMCG on Low Cost Beowulf System 354CHAPTER 7 VOLUME SCATTERING SIMULATIONS 3711 Combining Simulations of Collective Volume Scattering Effects with Radiative Transfer Theory 3732 Foldy-Lax Self-Consistent Multiple Scattering Equations 3763 Analytical Solutions of Point Scatterers 3824 Monte Carlo Simulation Results of Point Scatterers 392CHAPTER 8 PARTICLE POSITIONS FOR DENSE MEDIA CHARACTERIZATIONS AND SIMULATIONS 4031 Pair Distribution Functions and Structure Factors 4042 Percus—Yevick Pair Distribution Functions for Multiple Sizes 4113 Monte Carlo Simulations of Particle Positions 4144 Sticky Particles 4245 Particle Placement Algorithm for Spheroids 444CHAPTER 9 SIMULATIONS OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL DENSE MEDIA 4531 Introduction 4542 Random Positions of Cylinders 4583 Monte Carlo Simulations of Scattering by Cylinders 4694 Sparse-Matrix Canonical-Grid Method for Scattering by Many Cylinders 486CHAPTER 10 DENSE MEDIA MODELS AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS 4951 Introduction 4962 Simple Analytical Models For Scattering From a Dense Medium 4963 Simulations Using Volume Integral Equations 5124 Numerical Simulations Using T-Matrix Formalism 533CHAPTER 11 ANGULAR CORRELATION FUNCTION AND DETECTION OF BURIED OBJECT 5511 Introduction 5522 Two-Dimensional Simulations of Angular Memory Effect and Detection of Buried Object 5533 Angular Correlation Function of Scattering by a Buried Object Under a 2-D Random Rough Surface (3-DScattering) 5644 Angular Correlation Function Applied to Correlation Imaging in Target Detection 575CHAPTER 12 MULTIPLE SCATTERING BY CYLINDERS IN THE PRESENCE OF BOUNDARIES 5931 Introduction 5942 Scattering by Dielectric Cylinders Above a Dielectric Half-Space 5943 Scattering by Cylinders in the Presence of Two Reflective Boundaries 622CHAPTER 13 ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES SCATTERING BY VEGETATION 6411 Introduction 6422 Plant Modeling by Using L-Systems 6443 Scattering from Trees Generated by L-Systems Based on Coherent Addition Approximation 6544 Coherent Addition Approximation with Attenuation 6675 Scattering from Plants Generated by L-Systems Based on Discrete Dipole Approximation 6696 Rice Canopy Scattering Model 685References and Additional Readings 691INDEX 693