A HYBRID ASYMPTOTIC SOLUTION FOR THE SCATTERING BY A PAIR OF PARALLEL PERFECTLY CONDUCTING WEDGES

The overlapping transition regions of the double diffraction by a pair of parallel wedge edges are considered for the hybrid case where the gap between the edges is small compared to the distances from the source and the observation point (plane wave-far-field limit) and the scatterer as a whole is large (or infinite). A closed-form asymptotic solution for the scattered field continuous at all angles of incidence and scattering is constructed for this case. The peculiar feature of this solution is a hybrid representation of the field singly diffracted by the first wedge: a part of it is described by a nonuniform, geometrical theory of diffraction (GTD) expression, while the other part is described in terms of the uniform theory of diffraction (UDT). The rest of the diffracted ray fields are described by nonuniform expressions, with singularities mutually cancelling on summation. This solution is applied to the scattering by a perfectly conducting rectangular cylinder with appropriate geometrical parameters, and agreement with the moment method (MM) calculation is demonstrated. © 1990 IEEE