A Full-Wave Method for Radar Cross-Section Analysis with Locally Generated Structured Electromagnetic Waves

作者

  • Matthew J. Dodd Department of Electrical Engineering Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, USA
  • Kobe Prior Department of Electrical Engineering Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, USA
  • Joseph E. Diener Department of Electrical Engineering Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, USA
  • Veysel Demir Department of Electrical Engineering Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA
  • Atef Z. Elsherbeni Department of Electrical Engineering Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 80401, USA

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https://doi.org/10.13052/2026.ACES.J.410302

关键词:

Radar Cross Section, Microwave Orbital Angular Momentum, Finite Difference Time Domain, Method of Moments

摘要

This work presents a full-wave numerical method for simulating the radar cross-section (RCS) of targets illuminated by structured electromagnetic waves generated by physically realizable sources embedded within the simulation domain. The proposed framework enables RCS prediction using practical excitation mechanisms, such as antenna arrays, rather than idealized incident fields. To demonstrate the approach, we compute the RCS of several canonical targets under illumination by an orbital angular momentum (OAM) vortex wave produced by a uniform circular array (UCA) of dipole antennas. The simulated results reveal distinctive scattering behaviors and increased RCS diversity associated with OAM-based structured wave excitation. The methodology establishes a foundation for future studies of target scattering under a broad range of structured electromagnetic fields and source configurations.

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Matthew J. Dodd received his B.S. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from UWMadison, Madison, WI, USA, in 2018. He received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, in 2024 and is currently pursuing the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering under Atef Elsherbeni. His research interests include optimization methods for electromagnetics, metamaterials, and phased array antennas.

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Kobe Prior is pursuing the combined B.S. and M.S. degrees from Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA. His main research interests are antenna design, computational electromagnetics, structured electromagnetic waves, including orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes, phased array synthesis, and experimental characterization of scattering phenomena.

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Joseph E. Diener obtained his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering at Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA, and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering under Atef Elsherbeni. His research interests include FDTD methods, GPU acceleration, genetic algorithms, antennas, active and passive circuits, and phased array systems.

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Veysel Demir is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at Northern Illinois University, USA. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 1997. He studied at Syracuse University, New York, where he received both a Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Electrical Engineering in 2002 and 2004, respectively. During his graduate studies, he worked as a Research Assistant for Sonnet Software, Inc., Liverpool, New York. He worked as a visiting Research Scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Mississippi from 2004 to 2007. He joined Northern Illinois University in August 2007 and served as an Assistant Professor until August 2014. He has been serving as an Associate Professor since then.

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Atef Z. Elsherbeni received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Manitoba University, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, in 1987. He started his engineering career as a part time Software and System Design Engineer from March 1980 to December 1982 at the Automated Data System Center, Cairo, Egypt. From January to August 1987, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Manitoba University. Elsherbeni joined the faculty at the University of Mississippi in August 1987 as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and progressed to the full professor and the Associate Dean of the College of Engineering for Research and Graduate Programs. He then joined the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) Department at Colorado School of Mines in August 2013. Elsherbeni is an IEEE Life Fellow and ACES Fellow. He is the Editor-in-Chief for Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Journal, and a past Associate Editor to the Radio Science Journal. He was the Chair of the Engineering and Physics Division of the Mississippi Academy of Science, the Chair of the Educational Activity Committee for IEEE Region 3 Section, and the past President of ACES Society. He received the 2023 IEEE APS Harington-Mittra Award for his contribution to computational electromagnetics with hardware acceleration and the ACES 2025 Computational Electromagnetics Award.

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2026-03-30

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M. J. . Dodd, K. . Prior, J. E. . Diener, V. . Demir, 和 A. Z. . Elsherbeni, 《A Full-Wave Method for Radar Cross-Section Analysis with Locally Generated Structured Electromagnetic Waves》, ACES Journal, 卷 41, 期 03, 页 207–215, 3月 2026.

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2026: Vol 41 Iss 3

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