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Research ArticleA Numerical Method for Analyzing Electromagnetic ScatteringProperties of a Moving Conducting Object
Lei Kuang, Shouzheng Zhu, Jianjun Gao, Zhengqi Zheng, and Danan Dong
School of Information Science and Technology, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
Correspondence should be addressed to Lei Kuang; lkuang@ee.ecnu.edu.cn
Received 19 October 2013; Revised 1 January 2014; Accepted 15 January 2014; Published 23 February 2014
Academic Editor: Gaobiao Xiao
Copyright ยฉ 2014 Lei Kuang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
A novel numerical approach is developed to analyze electromagnetic scattering properties of a moving conducting object based onthe finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) algorithm. Relativistic boundary conditions are implemented into the FDTD algorithmto calculate the electromagnetic field on the moving boundary. An improved technique is proposed to solve the scattered field inorder to improve the computational efficiency and stability of solutions.The time-harmonic scattered field from a one-dimensionalmoving conducting surface is first simulated by the proposed approach. Numerical results show that the amplitude and frequencyof the scattered field suffer a modulation shift. Then the transient scattered field is calculated, and broadband electromagneticscattering properties of the moving conducting surface are obtained by the fast Fourier transform (FFT). Finally, the scattered fieldfrom a two-dimensional moving square cylinder is analyzed. The numerical results demonstrate the Doppler effect of a movingconducting object. The simulated results agree well with analytical results.
1. Introduction
With the development of aerospace technology and deepspace exploration, the analysis of electromagnetic scatteringproperties of moving bodies with a high speed has gainedmore and more attention recently. It has wide applications inthe radar detection of high-speed moving bodies.
The existing analytical theory of the electromagneticscattering from moving bodies can be carried out for regularshapes. Strauss [1] obtained the scattering operator in thepresence of a moving object. The electromagnetic jump con-ditions were introduced at amoving boundary by Costen andAdamson [2]. Using the Lorentz transformation, Michielsenet al. [3] developed the electromagnetic waves scattered bya uniform moving obstacle. Arnaoudov and Venkov [4]developed an analytical model to analyze the low-frequencyscattering process generated by a plane electromagneticfield that is incident upon a moving perfectly conducting.Georgiev [5] studied the inverse electromagnetic scatteringproblem for moving surfaces. However, it is difficult toanalyze general two- or three-dimensional bodies, since
closed-form solutions cannot be obtained when the bodyshape, composition, and transition are arbitrary.
A numerical approach is required to solve the electro-magnetic field around themoving bodywith irregular shapes.Ho [6] simulated the scattered field from a rotating two-dimensional cylinder using passing center swing back gridstechnique. Based on the FDTD algorithm [7โ9], Sahrani andKuroda [10] analyzed the electromagnetic field with movingboundaries by combining the Lorentz transformation. Theydid not, however, discuss how to introduce the incident planewave source into the FDTD computational domain to dealwith the scattered field from moving bodies. Subsequentlya new Lorentz-FDTD algorithm is proposed by Zheng etal. [11]. They discussed how to introduce the incident planewave in the moving reference system in the calculations.However, the Lorentz transformation [12] requires at leasttwo frames. And a system transformation is needed; thatincreases the calculation complexity. Harfoush et al. [13]calculated electromagnetic scattering from the conductingsurfaces by the FDTD algorithm. However, it cannot beextended to three-dimensional electromagnetic scattering,
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since the calculation of the electromagnetic field at themoving interface is based on the reflection model of aninfinite conducting plane surface.
Based on the FDTD method, we calculated the elec-tromagnetic field on the moving boundary with relativisticboundary conditions. We analyzed harmonic responses andtransient responses of a one-dimensional moving conductingsurface. We also analyzed the scattering properties of atwo-dimensional moving conducting square cylinder. Theproposed numerical approach uses no system transformationand gives the solution directly in the time domain. TheDoppler effect of the scattered field from a moving con-ducting surface was observed in the simulation. Althoughscattering properties of one- and two-dimensional movingobjects were discussed in the paper, the proposed numericalapproach can be extended to the three-dimensional case.Thiswill be our further research.
The present paper is organized as follows. Section 2introduces the relativistic boundary conditions and equa-tions for calculating the electromagnetic field on a movingboundary. Section 3 briefly summarizes the FDTD methodand describes the implementation of relativistic boundaryconditions. Section 4 presents the analytical formula of amoving conducting surface. Section 5 discusses the simulatedresults of a one-dimensional moving conducting surface anda two-dimensional moving conducting square cylinder.
2. Relativistic Boundary Conditions fora Moving Conducting Object
For a stationary boundary separating regions 1 and 2, thetangential components of
๐ธ and the normal componentsof
๐ต are continuous across the boundary. On the movingboundaries between region 1 and region 2, however, thecomponents of electric field andmagnetic field should satisfyrelativistic boundary conditions. The derivation of theseconditions, in its general form, is well presented in [14] andyields
๐ ร (
๐ธ1
โ
๐ธ2) โ (๐ โ V) (
๐ต1
โ
๐ต2) = 0, (1a)
๐ โ (
๐ท1
โ
๐ท2) = ๐๐ , (1b)
๐ ร (
๐ป1
โ
๐ป2) + (๐ โ V) (
๐ท1
โ
๐ท2) =
๐ฝ๐ , (1c)
๐ โ (
๐ต1
โ
๐ต2) = 0, (1d)
where subscripts 1 and 2 denote fields in regions 1 and 2; ๐ธ,
๐ท,
๐ป, and ๐ต are the electric field, electric flux density, magnetic
field, and magnetic flux density, respectively;๐๐ and ๐ฝ๐ denote
the surface-charge and current densities; V is the velocity ofthe moving interface (assumed to be uniform). We define thesurface normal ๐ point from region 2 to region 1. When V =
0 or ๐ โ V = 0, (1a)โ(1d) reduce to equations of boundariesconditions of stationary boundaries.
1D infinite surface
Incident wave
O
x
๏ฟฝ
z
y
Ei
Hi
ki
n
Figure 1: A plane wave normally incident on a moving conductingplane surface.
When we consider region 2 as a perfectly conductingmedium, relativistic boundary conditions become
๐ ร
๐ธ1
โ (๐ โ V) ๐ต1
= 0, (2a)
๐ โ
๐ท1
= ๐๐ , (2b)
๐ ร
๐ป1
+ (๐ โ V) ๐ท1
=
๐ฝ๐ , (2c)
๐ โ
๐ต1
= 0. (2d)
A one-dimensional moving conducting surface illuminatedby a plane wave is shown in Figure 1. The incident electricfield is polarized in the ๐ฅ-direction and incident magneticfield is polarized in the ๐ฆ-direction. The conducting surfaceis parallel to the ๐ฅ๐๐ฆ-plane and moves along the +๐ง-axis withthe speed of V.
According to the relativistic boundary conditions, totalfield (including incident field and scattered field) componentsof
๐ธ and ๐ป on the one-dimensional moving interface are
given by
๐ธ๐ฅ
= V โ ๐ โ ๐ป๐ฆ. (3)
The relativistic boundary conditions can be easily imple-mented for the two- and three-dimensional cases. It isimportant to note from (2a), (2b), (2c), and (2d) that ascatterer motion perpendicular to the surface normal resultsin boundary conditions similar to those of a fixed object. Thereason is that the term ๐ โ V is now equal to 0.
3. A Numerical Model fora Moving Conducting Object
The Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) algorithm wasintroduced by Yee [7] to numerically solve Maxwellโs curlequations using finite differences. In a one-dimensional case,
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Maxwellโs curl equations are equivalent to the following scalarequations:
โ
๐๐ป๐ฆ
๐๐ง
= ๐
๐๐ธ๐ฅ
๐๐ก
+ ๐๐ธ๐ฅ,
(4a)
๐๐ธ๐ฅ
๐๐ง
= โ๐
๐๐ป๐ฆ
๐๐ก
โ ๐๐
๐ป๐ฆ,
(4b)
where ๐ and ๐๐denote conductivity and magnetic inductiv-
ity, respectively.With the FDTD algorithm, the continuous electromag-
netic field in finite volume is sampled at discrete points in aspace lattice and in time step. Therefore, the finite differenceequation for (4a) is as follows:
๐ธ
๐+1
๐ฅ(๐) = ๐ถ๐ด (๐) โ ๐ธ
๐
๐ฅ(๐) โ ๐ถ๐ต (๐)
โ
๐ป
๐+1/2
๐ฆ(๐ + 1/2) โ ๐ป
๐+1/2
๐ฆ(๐ โ 1/2)
ฮ๐ง
,
(5)
where ๐ถ๐ด(๐) and ๐ถ๐ต(๐) are defined as
๐ถ๐ด (๐) =
1 โ ๐ (๐) ฮ๐ก/2๐ (๐)
1 + ๐ (๐) ฮ๐ก/2๐ (๐)
, (6a)
๐ถ๐ต (๐) =
ฮ๐ก/๐ (๐)
1 + ๐ (๐) ฮ๐ก/2๐ (๐)
, (6b)
with ๐ = ๐. Similarly, the finite difference equation for (4b)becomes
๐ป
๐+1/2
๐ฆ(๐ +
1
2
) = ๐ถ๐ (๐) โ ๐ป
๐โ1/2
๐ฆ(๐ +
1
2
) โ ๐ถ๐ (๐)
โ
๐ธ
๐
๐ฅ(๐ + 1) โ ๐ธ
๐
๐ฅ(๐)
ฮ๐ง
,
(7)
where ๐ถ๐ (๐)and ๐ถ๐ (๐) are written as
๐ถ๐ (๐) =
1 โ ๐๐
(๐) ฮ๐ก/2๐ (๐)
1 + ๐๐
(๐) ฮ๐ก/2๐ (๐)
, (8a)
๐ถ๐ (๐) =
ฮ๐ก/๐ (๐)
1 + ๐๐
(๐) ฮ๐ก/2๐ (๐)
, (8b)
with๐ = ๐+1/2. In these equations, superscript ๐ is the timestep index and ๐, ๐, and ๐ are the spatial indices correspondingto the ๐ฅ-, ๐ฆ-, and ๐ง-axis, respectively. The finite differenceequations for the two- and three-dimensional cases can beacquired from [7].
In the study of electromagnetic scattering from themoving conducting surface, the relativistic boundary condi-tions are implemented into the FDTD method. The FDTDscattering model for the moving conducting surface is shownin Figure 2. Radiation boundary conditions [15] are imple-mented to truncate the FDTD computational domain. TheFDTD computational domain is separated into two parts.One part is the total field region including the movingconducting surface. The other part is the remaining regioncalled the scattered field region. The incident plane waveis introduced to the total field region by the connecting
M(t = t1) N(t = t2)
Ex๏ฟฝ ๏ฟฝ
Hy
z
The radiation boundary
The connecting boundaryThe moving conducting surface
The
point
Total fieldregion region
Scattered field
observation
Figure 2: The FDTD model for the conducting surface moving.
boundary. In order to study the scattered field from themoving conducting surface, the observation point is placedin the scattered field region, shown in Figure 2.
The relativistic boundary condition is only implementedfor the electric field at a moving conducting surface. Accord-ing to [13], it should be enough to model the scattering froma moving object. Here, (3) should be implemented for theelectric field on themoving boundary at each time step.Whenthe surface moves, however, the moving boundary cannotbe just at the position of the ๐ธ
๐ฅcomponent in the FDTD
model. At the time of ๐ก1, the conducting surface is at the
position ๐, as shown in Figure 2. The distance between theelectric field component ๐ธ
๐ฅclosest to the moving boundary
and the moving boundary is more than ฮ๐ง/2. Subsequently,the conducting surface moves at the position N when ๐ก is ๐ก
2.
The distance between the electric field component ๐ธ๐ฅclosest
to the moving boundary and the moving boundary is lessthanฮ๐ง/2.Therefore, (3) is implemented only for the๐ธ
๐ฅcom-
ponent closest to the moving boundary. The closest distancebetween the ๐ธ
๐ฅcomponent and the moving boundary ranges
from 0 to one spacial increment. The accumulated errorsmake the FDTD equations nonconvergent after many timestep calculations.
To resolve this problem, an improved technique is pro-posed in the paper. From Figures 3(a) and 3(b), an arrowrepresents the electric component ๐ธ
๐ฅand a dot represents
themagnetic component๐ป๐ฆ.Themoving conducting surface
is assumed to be relatively static in the FDTD domain, asshown in Figures 3(a) and 3(b). Thus the position of the๐ธ๐ฅcomponent becomes fixed at the moving boundary all
the time. By introducing proper incident field values to theFDTD total field region and moving the observation point,the scattered field from the moving conducting surface canbe simulated.The stability of solutions is satisfactory. Electro-magnetic field components at the truncated boundaries arecalculated by the radiation boundary conditions. And the restof electromagnetic field components in the FDTD domaincan be calculated by (5) and (7).
In Figure 3(c), the connecting boundary is at the position๐ด when ๐ก = ๐ก
1. Therefore, at the time of ๐ก
1, the value of the
incident field at the position ๐ด is introduced to excite theconducting surface being relatively static in the FDTDmodel,
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1D surface
1D surface
Eix
Hiy
kiz
Ex
๏ฟฝ
๏ฟฝ
Hy
z
z
z
z
t = t1
t = t2
(t = t1)
(t = t2)
The radiation boundary
The connecting boundary
The
point (a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
observation
Theconnectingboundary
Theconnectingboundary
The incident wave A B
Figure 3: An improved FDTD model for the conducting surfacebeing relatively static in the computational domain.
as shown in Figure 3(a).The desired value of the incident fieldis interpolated using the closest two points in the incidentfield grids. From Figure 3(d), when ๐ก = ๐ก
2, the connecting
boundary moves at the position ๐ต. Consequently, at the timeof ๐ก2, the value of the incident field at the position ๐ต should be
introduced to the total field region, as shown in Figure 3(b).Since the conducting surface is assumed static in the FDTDdomain, the observation point should be moved opposite tothemoving direction of the conducting surfacewith the speedof V at each time step in order to simulate relative motionbetween observation point and the conducting surface.
To ensure the stability of the FDTD method for a one-dimensional static object, a time increment ฮ๐ก and a spatialincrement ฮ usually must be ฮ๐ก โค ฮ/๐ and ฮ โค ๐/10,respectively. Considering a large moving velocity, however,the mesh size should be further reduced to ensure thestability. Here, a spatial increment of ฮ = ๐/20 can guaranteethe stability when the velocity is less than 0.1๐ (๐ is the speedof light). A spatial increment of ฮ = ๐/60 guarantees thestability for V > 0.1๐.
Compared with the existing methods, computation effi-ciency is improved by our proposed method. The Lorentztransformation method can be used to solve the scatteredfield from a moving object. However, both the Lorentztransformation and the inverse Lorentz transformation areneeded before the final result is provided. By implementingthe relativistic boundary conditions at a moving boundary, astraightforward solution is possible without any transforma-tion in this paper. That improves the computation efficiency.Reference [13] also introduced the relativistic boundaryconditions to solve the scattered field from a moving object.
However, the object is moving in the total field region withthe time marching in the FDTD algorithm. Thus the totalfield region should include both the space occupied by theobject and the moving space of the moving object. Also, themoving object should be remodeled at the updated position ateach time step in the FDTD total field region. In our method,however, the moving object is assumed to be relatively staticin the FDTD total region. The FDTD total field regionincludes the space occupied by the static object only. Andthe object does not need to be remodeled at each time stepin the calculation.Therefore, our proposed approach reducesthe computational time and storage.
The relativistic boundary conditions based on a reflectionmodel of an infinite surface are applied in [13]. That cannotbe extended to compute the scattered field from a three-dimensional moving object. The relativistic boundary condi-tions implemented in our method can be easily extended to athree-dimensional case.
4. Analytical Formula for the Scattered Fieldsfrom a Moving Conducting Surface
When an incident sinusoidal planewave of angular frequency๐ and unit amplitude is normally incident on a movinginfinite conducting surface with a speed V, the scatteredelectric field is given by [16]
๐ธ๐
= โ ๐ธ0
[
1 โ V/๐
1 + V/๐
]
ร exp ๐ [(
1 โ V/๐
1 + V/๐
) (๐๐ก โ ๐๐ง) + 2๐๐ (
๐0
โ V๐ก0
1 โ V/๐
)] ,
(9)
where ๐ง0
= V(๐กโ๐ก0)+๐0is the position of the surface boundary
with respect to a reference point and ๐0and ๐ก0are initial
values. It has been seen from (9) that a Doppler effect [17] isapparent in the scattered field. Both frequency and amplitudeof the scattered field are changed by multiplying the samefactor which is defined as
๐ผ =
1 โ V/๐
1 + V/๐
. (10)
5. Numerical Results
In order to validate the accuracy of our numerical methodand to illustrate the Doppler effect of a moving conductingobject, numerical results are presented in this section. Thesolution procedure to gain the electromagnetic scatteringproperties of a moving conducting object mainly includestwo steps. The first step is to calculate the time-domainscattered field. The second step is to obtain the frequencyspectrum of the scattered field by using the fast Fouriertransform (FFT).
A one-dimensional conducting plane surface is placedin the FDTD domain, as shown in Figures 3(a) and 3(b). Itmoves with speed of V = V๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ. A positive speed of Vmeans thatthe surface is receding from the incident wave and a negative
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0
0.4
0.8
1.2
E-fie
ld m
agni
tude
(V/m
)
โ0.4
โ0.8
โ1.2
๏ฟฝ = 0
๏ฟฝ = 0.1c
๏ฟฝ = 0.2c
๏ฟฝ = 0.3c๏ฟฝ = 0.4c
Time step (ฮt)
Figure 4: Time-domain scattered waveforms of the conductingsurface moving along the +๐ง-axis.
speed means that the surface is moving toward the incidentwave. A sine plane wave of the frequency ๐ = 1.0 GHz andunit amplitude is adopted as an incident wave, which spreadsalong the ๐ง-axis normal incidence to the conducting surface.We assume that the conducting plane surface moves linearlyalong the ๐ง-axis with speeds of V = 0, 0.1๐, 0.2๐, 0.3๐, and0.4๐m/s (๐ is the speed of light in free space), respectively. Inthe FDTDmodel, the spacial increment is: ฮ๐ง = 0.005m andthe time increment ฮ๐ก is determined by the Courant condi-tion [9], which is set to be 8.3333 picoseconds. The simulatedtime-domain scattered waveforms and frequency spectrumsof the conducting surface with different speeds are plotted inFigures 4 and 5, respectively. As seen from Figures 4 and 5,the amplitude and frequency of the scattered field are equalto those of the incident field when the conducting surfaceis stationary. It can be seen from Figure 4 that amplitudes ofthe scattered field are decreased to 0.8179, 0.6663, 0.5379, and0.4281 V/m, respectively, when the conducting surfacemoveswith speeds of V = 0.1๐, 0.2๐, 0.3๐, and 0.4๐m/s, respectively.And frequencies of the scattered field from the conductingsurface with different speeds can be obtained by extractingpeak point values of curves in Figure 5. It is obvious thatfrequencies of the scattered field from the conducting surfacewith speeds of V = 0.1๐, 0.2๐, 0.3๐, and 0.4๐m/s shift to 0.8178,0.6662, 0.5378, and 0.4279GHz.
According to (9), when a one-dimensional moving con-ducting surface is excited by a plane wave, the amplitudeand frequency ratio of the scattered and incident field ๐ผ isdefined as (10). Substituting the speed of V = 0, 0.1๐, 0.2๐, 0.3๐,and 0.4๐m/s into (10), the theoretical results of amplitudes ofscatteredwaves are 1.0, 0.8182, 0.6667, 0.5385, and 0.4286V/mand those of frequencies of scattered waves are 1.0, 0.8182,0.6667, 0.5385, and 0.4286GHz, respectively. By comparing
0 0.5 1 1.50
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
Mag
nitu
de
๏ฟฝ = 0
๏ฟฝ = 0.1c
๏ฟฝ = 0.2c
๏ฟฝ = 0.3c๏ฟฝ = 0.4c
f (GHz)
Figure 5: Frequencies of the scattered waves from the conductingsurface moving along the +๐ง-axis.
the theoretical results with the simulated results, a goodagreement has been reached.
Assume that the speed of the conducting surface is,respectively, equal to four cases as โ0.1๐, โ0.2๐, โ0.3๐, andโ0.4๐m/s. The time-domain scattered waveforms are shownin Figure 6. The simulated amplitudes of scattered waves areequal to 1.2224, 1.5006, 1.8581, and 2.3345V/m, respectively.The frequencies of scattered waves are plotted in Figure 7. Byextracting peak point values of curves in Figure 7, simulatedfrequencies of scattered waves are equal to 1.2226, 1.5008,1.8585, and 2.3349GHz, respectively.
According to (10), theoretical amplitudes of scatteredwaves are 1.2222, 1.5000, 1.8571, and 2.3333V/m, respectively,when the conducting surface moves with speeds of V = โ0.1๐,โ0.2๐, โ0.3๐, and โ0.4๐m/s. And theoretical frequencies ofscattered waves are 1.2222, 1.5000, 1.8571, and 2.3333GHz,respectively. Comparison shows that the amplitudes andfrequencies of scattered waves calculated by the proposednumerical method agree well with the theoretical results.
For the sake of obtaining the transient scattering of themoving conducting surface, two kinds of transient excitationsources are used in the FDTD model. A Gaussian pulse withmaximum electric field amplitude of 1 V/m is first adoptedto excite the moving conducting surface, which has thefollowing form:
๐ธ๐(๐ฮ๐ก) = exp(โ
4๐(๐ฮ๐ก โ ๐ก0)
2
๐
2) , (11)
where ฮ๐ก is the time increment in the FDTD simulation, ๐ isthe pulse half-duration at the 1/๐ point, and it determines theGaussian width. The peak point value of the Gaussian pulseappears at ๐ฮ๐ก = ๐ก
0. Here, ๐ and ๐ก
0of the Gaussian pulse are
set to 400ฮ๐ก and ๐ก0
= 750ฮ๐ก. The dashed line is the incidentwaveform in Figure 8.
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0
1
2
3
E-fie
ld m
agni
tude
(V/m
)
๏ฟฝ = โ0.1c
๏ฟฝ = โ0.2c
๏ฟฝ = โ0.3c
๏ฟฝ = โ0.4c
โ1
โ2
โ3
Time step (ฮt)
Figure 6: Time-domain scattered waveforms of the conductingsurface moving along the โ๐ง-axis.
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0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
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๏ฟฝ = โ0.1c
๏ฟฝ = โ0.2c
๏ฟฝ = โ0.3c๏ฟฝ = โ0.4c
f (GHz)
Figure 7: Frequencies of the scattered waves from the conductingsurface moving along the โ๐ง-axis.
In the simulation, the speed of the moving conductingsurface takes five cases of 0, 0.1๐, 0.2๐, 0.3๐, and 0.4๐m/s.Time-domain scattered waveforms of the conducting surfacewith different speeds are plotted in Figure 8. From Figure 8,the pulse-width of the scattered wave is broadened withthe increasing moving speed. The amplitudes of simulatedscattered pulses are equal to 1.0, 0.8181, 0.6665, 0.5381,and 0.4282V/m, respectively. The amplitudes of simulatedscattered waves show good agreement with the theoreticalresults.
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0
0.5
1
Elec
tric
fiel
d (V
/m)
Incident wave๏ฟฝ = 0
๏ฟฝ = 0.1c
๏ฟฝ = 0.2c
๏ฟฝ = 0.3c
๏ฟฝ = 0.4c
โ0.5
โ1
Time step (ฮt)
Figure 8: The time-domain scattered waveforms of the movingconducting surface excited by the Gaussian pulse.
Then a modulated Gaussian pulse is used to excite themoving conducting surface, which has the following form:
๐ธ๐(๐ฮ๐ก) = โ cos (2๐๐ โ ๐ฮ๐ก) exp(โ
4๐(๐ฮ๐ก โ ๐ก0)
2
๐
2) , (12)
where ๐ and ๐ก0of the modulated Gaussian pulse are set to
400ฮ๐ก and ๐ก0
= 750ฮ๐ก.The center frequency of themodulatedGaussian pulse is 1 GHz. The waveform of the modulatedGaussian pulse excitation source is shown in the Figure 9.Thedashed line indicates the frequency spectrumof the excitationsource in Figure 10.
Numerically simulated scattered waveforms and fre-quency spectrums of the conducting surface for differentspeeds are plotted in Figures 9 and 10, respectively. Thespectrum width of the scattered field is narrowed and thepeak value of the spectrum is increased with the increasingspeed. It can be seen from Figure 10 that the simulatedcenter frequencies are 1.0, 0.8180, 0.6663, 0.5379, and 0.4281,respectively, for five cases of 0, 0.1๐, 0.2๐, 0.3๐, and 0.4๐m/s.
When the conducting surface moves against the incidentwave, the center frequency of the scattered field will shiftto the low frequency end with an increasing moving speed.On the contrary, the center frequency will shift to the highfrequency end with the increasing moving speed opposite tothe propagation direction of the incident wave.
The scattered field from a two-dimensional conductingsquare cylinder with the size of 0.3mร0.3m is studied in thissection. As shown in Figure 11, the incident wave is assumedto be polarized in the negative ๐ง-direction and propagatingin the positive ๐ฅ-direction. The square cylinder is recedingfrom the incident wave with the speed of V in the positive ๐ฅ-direction. In the two-dimensional FDTD model, the spacialincrement isฮ๐ฅ = ฮ๐ฆ = 0.005mand the time incrementฮ๐ก is8.3333 picoseconds. AGaussian pulse withmaximum electric
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0
0.5
1
Elec
tric
fiel
d (V
/m)
โ0.5
โ1
Incident wave๏ฟฝ = 0
๏ฟฝ = 0.1c
๏ฟฝ = 0.2c
๏ฟฝ = 0.3c
๏ฟฝ = 0.4c
Time step (ฮt)
Figure 9: The time-domain scattered waveforms of the movingconducting surface excited by the modulated Gaussian pulse.
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nitu
de
f (GHz)
Incident wave๏ฟฝ = 0
๏ฟฝ = 0.1c
๏ฟฝ = 0.2c
๏ฟฝ = 0.3c
๏ฟฝ = 0.4c
Figure 10: Frequency spectrums of the moving conducting surfaceexcited by the modulated Gaussian pulse.
field amplitude of 1 V/m is adopted to excite the movingconducting square cylinder. Referring to (11), ๐ and ๐ก
0of the
Gaussian pulse are set to ๐ = 80ฮ๐ก and ๐ก0
= 50ฮ๐ก, respectively.When the square cylinder is static, the horizontal distancefrom the observation point to the left boundary of the squarecylinder is 0.075m and the vertical distance is 0.15m.
In the simulation, the speed of the moving conduct-ing square cylinder takes four cases of 0, 0.1๐, 0.2๐, and0.3๐m/s. Time-domain scattered waveforms received by theobservation point for the four cases are plotted in Figure 12,
An incidentwave
A 2D squarecylinder
The observation
Hy
Ez
kix
๏ฟฝ
point
Figure 11: A plane wave normally incident on a moving conductingsquare cylinder.
0 100 200 300 400 500 600
0
0.5
1
Elec
tric
fiel
d (V
/m)
Incident wave๏ฟฝ = 0
๏ฟฝ = 0.1c
๏ฟฝ = 0.2c๏ฟฝ = 0.3c
โ0.5
โ1
Time step (ฮt)
Figure 12: The time-domain scattered waveforms of the movingconducting square cylinder excited by the Gaussian pulse.
respectively. From Figure 12, a pulse-width of a scatteredwave is broadened with the increasing moving speed. Theamplitudes of simulated scattered pulses are equal to 1.0,0.8091, 0.6441, and 0.4936V/m, respectively. Compared withFigure 8, the amplitudes of scattered pulses from a movingsquare cylinder are less than those of scattered pulses from amoving infinite surface.Themain reason is that the amplitudeof scattered wave from a two-dimensional object declineswith the spreading distance.
Subsequently, a modulated Gaussian pulse is used toexcite the moving conducting square cylinder. ๐ and ๐ก
0of the
modulated Gaussian pulse are set to ๐ = 400ฮ๐ก and ๐ก0
=
450ฮ๐ก, respectively. The center frequency of the modulatedGaussian pulse is 1 GHz. The waveform of the modulatedGaussian pulse excitation source is shown in Figure 13.
Numerically simulated scattered waveforms and fre-quency spectrums of the conducting square cylinder fordifferent speeds are plotted in Figures 13 and 14, respectively.The spectrum width of the scattered field is narrowed withthe increasing moving speed. Compared with Figure 10, thepeak values of the spectrum of scattered waves from amoving square cylinder are less than those of the spectrum of
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0 500 1000 1500 2000
0
0.5
1
Elec
tric
fiel
d (V
/m)
Incident wave๏ฟฝ = 0
๏ฟฝ = 0.1c
๏ฟฝ = 0.2c๏ฟฝ = 0.3c
โ0.5
โ1
Time step (ฮt)
Figure 13: The time-domain scattered waveforms of the movingconducting square cylinder excited by the modulated Gaussianpulse.
0 0.5 1 1.5 20
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
1.4
Mag
nitu
de
๏ฟฝ = 0
๏ฟฝ = 0.1c
๏ฟฝ = 0.2c๏ฟฝ = 0.3c
f (GHz)
Figure 14: Frequency spectrums of the moving conducting squarecylinder excited by the modulated Gaussian pulse.
scattered waves from a moving infinite surface. The reason isthat the energy density decreases with the spreading distance.
6. Conclusions
Electromagnetic scattering from a moving perfectly con-ducting object in the steady state (one frequency) and tran-sient state (broadband) has been analyzed by the proposednumericalmethod based on the FDTDalgorithm. Relativistic
boundary conditions are incorporated to solve the electro-magnetic field on the moving boundary. And an efficienttechnique is introduced to calculate the electromagnetic fieldaround the moving conducting object. The numerical resultsillustrate that the range of the frequency and amplitudeshift of the scattered field varies with the moving speed ofthe object. By comparing simulated results with theoreticalresults, the accuracy and validity of the numerical approachare evaluated.
Contrary to other numerical methods using the Lorentztransformation, the proposed numerical approach uses nosystem transformation and gives the time-domain solutionsdirectly. It is convenient to analyze broadband scatteringproperties of moving bodies.This approach can be applied tomany practical engineering problems, such as detecting thespeed and direction of moving satellites or aircrafts by radarechoes.
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interestsregarding the publication of this paper.
Acknowledgments
Theresearchworkwas supported byNationalNatural ScienceFoundation of China under Grant no. 61201070, ShanghaiKey Laboratory of Navigation and Location Based Services,and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Uni-versities.
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