A solution to the propagation of electromagnetic wave in plasma sheath using FDTD method

Author

Liu, Jiang-fan ; Xi, Xiao-li ; Liu, Yang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Xi´´an Univ. of Technol., Xi´´an

fYear

2008

fDate

2-5 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

442

Lastpage

445

Abstract

An auxiliary differential equation finite-difference time domain (ADE-FDTD) methodology was used here to study the propagation of electromagnetic wave through a plasma sheath The reflection and transmission coefficients calculated by ADE-FDTD were compared with the analytic ones. The result shows an excellent agreement. Then, ADE-FDTD was used to resolve wave propagation in plasma sheath of RAMC flight, and the FDTD results agree with the date measured by RAMC flight.

Keywords

differential equations; electromagnetic wave propagation; finite difference time-domain analysis; plasma sheaths; FDTD method; auxiliary differential equation; electromagnetic wave propagation; finite-difference time domain methodology; plasma sheath; Differential equations; Electromagnetic analysis; Electromagnetic measurements; Electromagnetic propagation; Electromagnetic reflection; Electromagnetic scattering; Finite difference methods; Plasma measurements; Plasma sheaths; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antennas, Propagation and EM Theory, 2008. ISAPE 2008. 8th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Kunming

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2192-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2193-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISAPE.2008.4735243

Filename

4735243