Waves obliquely incident upon a stratified anisotropic slab A variational reaction approach

Journal Article · Fri Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1986 · Radio Sci.; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1029/RS021i004p00681· OSTI ID:7185325

Jeng, S K; Wu, R B; Chen, C H

The variational reaction theory of Wu and Chen (1985) is used to derive variational equations describing the propagation of EM waves obliquely incident upon an anisotropic stratified cold plasma slab. The resulting expression is then solved using a finite-element approach, as in the variational-electromagnetics method of Jeng and Chen (1984), and numerical results for a magnetized plasma slab and for the model ionosphere of Inoue and Horowitz (1966) are presented in graphs. 15 references.

• Research Organization: National Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Republic of China
• OSTI ID: 7185325
• Journal Information: Radio Sci.; (United States), Journal Name: Radio Sci.; (United States) Vol. 21; ISSN RASCA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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640201* -- Atmospheric Physics-- Auroral
Ionospheric
& Magetospheric Phenomena
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
ANISOTROPY
COLD PLASMA
EARTH ATMOSPHERE
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
FINITE ELEMENT METHOD
IONOSPHERE
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
NUMERICAL SOLUTION
PLANETARY IONOSPHERES
PLASMA
RADIATIONS
WAVE PROPAGATION