ECE 571
ECE 571 - Electromagnetic Waves in Inhomogeneous Media
Fall 2013
| Title | Rubric | Section | CRN | Type | Hours | Times | Days | Location | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EM Waves in Inhomogen Media | ECE571 | C | 45171 | LEC | 4 | 0930 - 1050 | T R | 257 Everitt Laboratory | Weng Chew |
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Official Description
Electromagnetic waves in layered media; plane wave expansion of electromagnetic point source field; Sommerfeld integrals; transient response; WKB method with asymptotic matching; scattering by junction discontinuity; surface integral equation; volume integral equation; inverse problems. Course Information: Prerequisite: MATH 446; ECE 520 or PHYS 505.
Subject Area
- Electromagnetics, Optics and Remote Sensing
Description
Waves in layered media; plane wave expansion of point source field; Sommerfeld integrals; transient response; WKB method with asymptotic matching, scattering by function discontinuity; surface integral equation; volume integral equation; inverse problems. Electromagnetic waves in layered media; plane wave expansion of electromagnetic point source field; Sommerfeld integrals; transient response; WKB method with asymptotic matching; scattering by junction discontinuity; surface integral equation; volume integral equation; inverse problems.
Topics
- Review of Maxwell's equations
- Waves in planarly layered media
- Expansion of a line or a point source in terms of plane waves
- Solution of a point source over layered media-Sommerfeld integrals
- Asympotic expansions of Sommerfeld integrals
- Transient response of a source in inhomogeneous media
- Reflection and transmission of waves due to junction discontinuity: mode matching
- Dyadic Green's functions of layered media
- Surface integral equations, extended boundary conditions, method of moments
- Volume integral equation, Born and Rytov approximation
- Inverse problems: projection and diffraction tomography
Detailed Description and Outline
Topics:
- Review of Maxwell's equations
- Waves in planarly layered media
- Expansion of a line or a point source in terms of plane waves
- Solution of a point source over layered media-Sommerfeld integrals
- Asympotic expansions of Sommerfeld integrals
- Transient response of a source in inhomogeneous media
- Reflection and transmission of waves due to junction discontinuity: mode matching
- Dyadic Green's functions of layered media
- Surface integral equations, extended boundary conditions, method of moments
- Volume integral equation, Born and Rytov approximation
- Inverse problems: projection and diffraction tomography
Texts
W.C. Chew, Waves and Fields in Inhomogeneous Media, 1990.
Last updated
2/13/2013