Alternative derivation of the cascaded cylinder diffraction model

By making use of rigorous solution to the problem of electromagnetic wave propagation as given by the compensation theorem, a qualitative justification for the existence of a number of models in which the prominent terrain features are replaced by simple geometrical shapes and for which canonical solutions exist is presented. The author presents an alternative derivation of the recently introduced cascaded cylinder model, which considers propagation by diffraction over a cascaded arrangement of circular cylinders. The model predictions are compared with experimental data, and with Vogler´s multiple halfplane function