High-frequency surface currents induced on a perfectly conducting cylindrical sheet by an obliquely incident plane wave

Abstract

Explicit expressions for the surface currents of different kinds induced on a perfectly conducting cylindrical sheet by an obliquely incident high-frequency plane wave are derived. The results are in such forms that they can both be used directly in numerical applications and permit us to understand the structure of the induced surface current. It is shown that the components due to the surface and edge diffractions propagate along certain geodesic lines on which the transfer coefficients as well as the attenuation constants are dependent only on the curvature radius.