Plane wave scattering by a corrugated conducting cylinder at oblique incidence

The problem of scattering from a corrugated conducting cylinder due to an obliquely incident plane wave is solved by a boundary-value method. The region between the corrugations is considered as a medium with tensor permeability and tensor permittivity, which is a valid assumption when the corrugation constant is much less than the free-space wavelength. By loading this region with a dielectric material, one of the components of the scattered electric field in the far-field region can be altered significantly with no change in the other component. These components, in turn, determine the bistatic scattering cross sections, and the dielectric loading of the corrugated region appears to have no effect on the cross section due to the polarized component, while showing significant changes in the cross section due to the depolarized component