A rigorous and efficient full-wave analysis of uniform bends in rectangular waveguide under arbitrary incidence

In this paper, a rigorous full-wave analysis of uniform bends in rectangular waveguides is performed. An accurate and efficient method-of-moments solution combined with the generalized-admittance-matrix (GAM) formulation is proposed in order to achieve a full-wave characterization of the analyzed structures. This full-wave modal solution turns out to be necessary for modeling complex microwave devices involving an arbitrary number of discontinuities between curved and straight waveguides, where all the modes of the involved guides are excited. The key feature of the presented method lies in the GAM representation of single and cascaded curved E- and H-plane uniform bends, which allows the construction of accurate models of the investigated discontinuities. To validate the theory, the convergence of the method is discussed and comparisons between our simulations and theoretical and experimental data are presented. The excellent behavior of our results, together with the computational efficiency of the proposed method, proves that the developed computer-aided-design tool can be successfully used in the design of complex microwave subsystems involving curved waveguides.

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