Solving multi-object radar cross section based on wide-angle parabolic equation method

1. INTRODUCTION The parabolic equation (PE) was first introduced to treat the problems of diffraction of radio waves around the earth by Leontovich and Fock1,2]. It’s a full-wave technique based on splitting the wave equation into two parabolic equations: outgoing and incoming parabolic wave equation, which describes the forward and backward propagating fields. The solution is marched from plane to plane along some preferred direction (say, paraxial direction). This technique reduces t…

Solving multi-object radar cross section based on wide-angle parabolic equation method

Based on a Padé approximation, a wide-angle parabolic equation method is introduced for computing the multiobject radar cross section (RCS) for the first time. The method is a paraxial version of the scalar wave equation, which solves the field by marching them along the paraxial direction. Numerical results show that a single wide-angle parabolic equation run can compute multi-object RCS efficiently for angles up to 45°. The method provides a new and efficient numerical method for computation electromagnetics.