NUMERICAL MODELLING OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING ON GRATINGS WITH ONE-DIMENSIONAL QUASI-FRACTAL PERIOD STRUCTURE

Abstract

Numerical modelling of the properties of E-polarised and H-polarised waves scattered on periodic screened quasi-fractal gratings is carried out. The location of the band system at each period is determined by the principle of constructing a generalized symmetric Cantor set at a certain step of the algorithm. A mathematical model of the problems based on systems of boundary singular integral equations of the first kind was used in the study. These systems of equations were obtained using the method of parametric representations of singular and hypersingular integral operators. The systems of singular integral equations were solved numerically using the computational schemes of the method of discrete singularities. The solutions of these equations are used to obtain the main characteristics of the electric and magnetic fields. This experiment proved the possibility of using the MDS computational scheme to analyse systems containing 8 – 16 bands at different distances from each other. Graphs of the dependence of harmonic amplitudes on the wavenumber, point plots of absolute values of all non-zero harmonics at resonant wavenumber values, and maps of electric and magnetic field components in the region above the grating were obtained. It is confirmed that the overall field structure in the case of normal incidence is significantly influenced by all harmonics with absolute numbers from 0 to 50. The harmonics had a large number of resonances that were observed at different values of the wavenumber. This led to a complex structure of the isolines of absolute values of the scattered electric and magnetic field amplitudes in the region above the structure, and a significant difference in amplitude values with small changes in coordinates. In the future, it is planned to carry out computer simulations for imperfectly conducting structures and compare the results with the numerical results for the ideal case considered in this paper. The proposed structure may be of interest for the design of multimode broadband antennas.