Finite-Difference Time Domain Techniques Applied to Electromagnetic Wave Interactions with Inhomogeneous Plasma Structures

<table class="figure-group"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><object data="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ijap/volume-2018/3476462/figures/3476462.fig.0020a.svgz" name="3476462.fig.0020a" type="image/svg+xml"></object></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td><b>(a) </b>Variable incident frequency <i>f</i><sub>in</sub></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><object data="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ijap/volume-2018/3476462/figures/3476462.fig.0020b.svgz" name="3476462.fig.0020b" type="image/svg+xml"></object></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td><b>(b) </b>Variable collision frequency <i>ν</i></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="c"><td><object data="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/ijap/volume-2018/3476462/figures/3476462.fig.0020c.svgz" name="3476462.fig.0020c" type="image/svg+xml"></object></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td><b>(c) </b>Variable central electron density <i>n</i><sub>0</sub></td></tr></table>

<div>Comparison between the scattering amplitudes obtained by the eigenfunction method and the FDTD simulation for different variable parameters of the inhomogeneous plasma.</div>

International Journal of Antennas and Propagation

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Figure 20: Finite-Difference Time Domain Techniques Applied to Electromagnetic Wave Interactions with Inhomogeneous Plasma Structures 