• DocumentCode
    1017443
  • Title

    The mean Green´s dyadic for a half-space random medium: A nonlinear approximation

  • Author

    Tan, H.S. ; Fung, A.K.

  • Author_Institution
    University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Volume
    27
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    1979
  • fDate
    7/1/1979 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    517
  • Lastpage
    523
  • Abstract
    The vector problem of a source embedded in a halfspace random medium is considered, and a zeroth-order solution for the mean Green\´s dyadic in the nonlinear approximation is derived. This is done by applying a two-variable expansion method to obtain a perturbation solution of the Dyson equation for the mean Green\´s dyadic. The final results of the dyadic are given in closed form as a corrected effective propagation constant, including terms of the order k_{a}^{2}\\sigma ^{2}l^{2} where k_{a} is the wavenumber in the average medium, l is the correlation length, and \\sigma ^{2} is the variance of the permittivity fluctuations. These results show a significant difference from those of the one-dimensional problem considered by Tsang and Kong [4]. Whereas the scalar solution gives different effective propagation constants for the component waves in the Green\´s function, the vector solution derived contains only a single propagation constant for all of the components in the Green\´s dyadic.
  • Keywords
    Electromagnetic propagation in random media; Green´s functions; Fluctuations; Fourier transforms; Integral equations; Laboratories; Linear approximation; Nonlinear equations; Permittivity; Propagation constant; Remote sensing; Senior members;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-926X
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TAP.1979.1142112
  • Filename
    1142112