Theoretical and Experimental Study of Electromagnetic Scattering by Two Identical Conducting Cylinders

Abstract

The scattering of a cylindrical TEM wave by two parallel, identical conducting circular cylinders is developed as a special case of a theoretical analysis which treats the scattering by an arbitrary array of cylinders. Only the case with the incident E‐vector parallel to the axes of the cylinders is considered, and attention is focused on the mutual effects present when the cylinder diameter and spacing are comparable to a wavelength. The approximations made in the theory are tested experimentally using 3 cm microwaves in a parallel plate region. Significant departures from the results of the independent scattering hypothesis as predicted by the theory have been confirmed experimentally.