VECTOR WAVE FUNCTION EXPANSION FOR SOLVING ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING BY BURIED OBJECTS

An analysis of solving the electromagnetic scattering by buried objects using vectorwave function expansion is presented.For expanding the boundary conditions both on the planarair-earth interface and on the spherical surface,the conversion relations between the cylindricaland spherical vector wave functions are derived.Hence the vector wave function expansion isconveniently applied to solve this complex boundary-value problem.For the excitation of the in-cident plane wave and the dipole above the earth,the scatterlng patterns of the buried conductingand dielectric spheres are presented and discussed.