FDTD METHOD INVESTIGATION ON THE POLARI-METRIC SCATTERING FROM 2-D ROUGH SURFACE

作者：Li, J.^*; Guo, L. -X.; Zeng, H.

来源：Progress in Electromagnetics Research-PIER, 2010, 101: 173-188.

DOI：10.2528/PIER09120104

• UPML ABSORBING CONDITION
• DIFFERENCE TIME-DOMAIN
• ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING
• BISTATIC SCATTERING
• SEA-SURFACE
• INTEGRAL-EQUATION
• MPI LIBRARY
• ALGORITHM
• BOUNDARY
• OBJECT

A polarimetric scattering from two-dimensional (2-D) rough surface is presented by the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) algorithm. The FDTD calculations with sinusoidal and pulsed plane wave excitations are performed. As the sinusoidal FDTD is concerned, it is convenient to obtain the scattered angular distribution of normalized radar cross section (NRCS) from rough surface for a single frequency. And the advantage of pulsed FDTD is to calculate the frequency distribution of NRCS from rough surface in a scattered direction of interest. A single frequency scattering from rough surface by sinusoidal FDTD is validated by the result of Kirchhoff Approximation (KA). And the frequency response of rough surface by pulsed FDTD is verified by that of sinusoidal FDTD, which requires an individual FDTD run for every frequency. To save computation time, the MPI-based parallel FDTD method is adopted. And the computation time of parallel FDTD algorithm is dramatically reduced compared to a single-process implementation. Finally, the polarimetric scattering of rough surface with the sinusoidal and pulsed FDTD illumination are presented and analyzed for different polarizations.

• 出版日期2010
• 单位西安电子科技大学