Modeling of Diffraction Effects in Urban Radiowave Propagation
Keywords:
Diffracting screens model, geometric optics (GO), GO UTD tool, path loss, PETOOL, twoway split step parabolic equation (SSPE), uniform theory of diffraction (UTD), urban propagationAbstract
A comparative study of some theoretical and numerical models is presented in the solution of twodimensional urban radiowave propagation problems. The path loss is computed by GO+UTD (geometric optics + uniform theory of diffraction), two-way SSPE (split step parabolic equation) and the diffracting screens models, and the results are compared through numerical simulations. The diffracted fields that are obtained by the GO+UTD model are demonstrated. Computational aspects of the models are briefly discussed.
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