DOUBLE DIFFRACTION AT A COPLANAR SKEWED EDGE CONFIGURATION

The problem of double edge diffraction in the near-field region of a coplanar skewed edge geometry, illuminated by a plane wave, is studied asymptotically via an extended spectral theory of diffraction approach. The resulting uniform dyadic double edge diffraction coefficient is expressed in terms of a universal integral (the generalized Fresnel integral) and remains valid when any one of the edges is within the transition region of a singly diffracted wave, while it asymptotically reduces to the ordinary geometrical theory of diffraction double diffraction coefficient elsewhere. Comparisons with method of moments computations for radiation patterns of sources in the vicinity of flat plate structures demonstrate the validity of the asymptotic approximation.