Electromagnetic Diffraction Modeling: High Frequency Asymptotics vs. Numerical Techniques
Keywords:
Diffraction, electromagnetics, finite element method (FEM), geometric optics (GO), geometric theory of diffraction (GTD), method of moments (MoM), physical optics (PO), physical theory of diffraction (PTD), simulation, time domain finite difference method (FDTD), wave scatteringAbstract
Electromagnetic diffraction modelling and recent numerical simulation approaches, on the canonical 2D non-penetrable wedge scattering problem, are reviewed in this introduction paper.
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