HIGH-FREQUENCY FIELDS EXCITED BY A LINE SOURCE LOCATED ON A CONCAVE CYLINDRICAL IMPEDANCE SURFACE

A previous study of high-frequency currents induced by a line source on a perfectly conducting concave cylindrical surface is extended to the case of nonvanishing surface impedance Zs. Alternative field representations are formulated and evaluated asymptotically as combinations of ray-optical, whispering gallery (WG) mode, surface wave, continuous spectrum, and canonical integral contributions. Numerical calculations provide an insight into the accuracy and utility of the various formulations. Sufficiently far from the source point, a combination of ray optical fields and tightly bound WG modes was previously found to be a most appealing form when Zs = 0. As the surface impedance becomes more dissipative, the WG modes are weakened by attenuation and eventually render the ray optical fields adequate by themselves. A representation in terms of rays and a canonical integral is found to be useful for all parameter ranges. The canonical integral has been evaluated numerilcally and tabulated. Copyright © 1979 by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.