MONTE CARLO INTEGRATION TECHNIQUE FOR THE ANALYSIS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING FROM CONDUCTING SURFACES

A new numerical method is proposed for the analysis of electromagnetic scattering from conducting surfaces. The method involves Monte Carlo integration technique in the Method of Moments solution of the Electric Field Integral Equation for determining the unknown induced current distribution on the surface of the scatterers. The unknown current distribution is represented in terms of a modified entire domain polynomial basis functions satisfying the appropriate edge conditions and symmetry conditions of the problem. This leads to very small order of the Method of Moments matrix as compared to the conventional sub-domain basis functions. The accuracy and the effectiveness of the method are demonstrated in three cases of scattering from conducting circular disks and results are compared with the solutions using conventional sub-domain basis functions. While the sub domain analysis is incapable of handling large domain problems, the proposed method overcomes this limitation. It is also observed that the proposed method is superior to conventional sub-domain method in dealing with singularity problem of the integral equation easily and efficiently.

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