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Abstract

The field scattered by a perfectly conducting plane surface with a perturbation illuminated by an E//-polarized plane wave is determined by means of a Rayleigh method. This cylindrical surface is described by a local function. The scattered field is supposed to be represented everywhere in space by a superposition of a continuous spectrum of outgoing plane waves. A "triangle/Dirac" method of moments applied to the Dirichlet boundary condition in the spectral domain allows the wave amplitudes to be obtained. For a half cosine arch,the proposed Rayleigh method is numerically investigated in the far-field zone,b y means of convergence tests on the spectral amplitudes and on the power balance criterion. We show that the Rayleigh integral can be used for perturbations,the amplitudes of which are close to half the wavelength.

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