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2009-03-11
The Sycle Slipping Phenomenon and the Degeneration Effect of Guided-Wave Modes
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Progress In Electromagnetics Research M, Vol. 6, 75-90, 2009
Abstract
A model of the ring waveguide of a fixed cross-section and variable distribution of the surface impedance of waveguide's wall has been considered. For a class of circular hodographs of surface impedance the analytical solution of the corresponding boundary-value problem has been obtained. This solution has been used for simulating a 'cycle slipping' phenomenon, known from the observations of VLF signals propagating over long paths in the earth-ionosphere waveguide, with the goal of clarifying the cause for its initiation. Numerical experiments have shown that this phenomenon, in the context of the model in question, is a consequence of the interconversion of two dominant waveguide modes in circumstances where their propagation constants are close.
Citation
Leonid A. Pazynin, "The Sycle Slipping Phenomenon and the Degeneration Effect of Guided-Wave Modes," Progress In Electromagnetics Research M, Vol. 6, 75-90, 2009.
doi:10.2528/PIERM08121606
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