Interaction of electromagnetic waves by a cylindrical parabolic mesh reflector

Abstract

A cylindrical parabolic reflector, composed of mesh grid, is modeled by a resistive surface. The analysis of the scattered waves is performed by the physical optics integral, which was developed for resistive surfaces. The integral is evaluated asymptotically for large values of the wave-number in high-frequencies. The geometrical optics and diffracted fields are obtained by the methods of stationary phase and edge point respectively. The uniform forms of the diffracted waves are derived. The total wave and its components are investigated numerically for different values of surface resistivity.