Electromagnetic transmission through inhomogeneously filled slots in a thick conducting plane-arbitrary incidence

The penetration of an arbitrarily incident electromagnetic wave through a slot filled with inhomogeneous material in a thick conducting plane is analyzed. The solution is obtained via a combined finite-element method/method of moments algorithm based on the generalized network formulation. The discretization of the generalized network formulation is performed via the method of moments. The finite-element method is then used to compute the fields within the inhomogeneous interior cavity region, leading to the construction of the interior aperture admittance matrix. It is shown that with the use of entire domain basis functions, the construction of the aperture admittance matrices is computationally efficient. Furthermore, this method is attractive since it preserves the sparsity of the finite-element method matrix, reducing computational memory requirements. Some examples of the penetration of inhomogeneously filled slots of various cross sections are presented