Electromagnetic scattering from conductors: The recursive iterative surface equivalence approach

A recursive iterative surface equivalence technique is proposed to solve electromagnetic scattering from arbitrary conducting bodies. The technique has advantages over existing methods based on integral equations, e.g. the method of moments (MoM), as well as methods based on finite differences. These advantages are particularly apparent for large scatterers, as the technique is inspired by the scattering from an infinite conducting plane. Also, trivial changes to MoM codes are needed to implement the technique. The generalization of the one-dimensional treatment is verified with two-dimensional problems.