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Abstract

After a short presentation of the boundary layer method extended to strongly elongated objects by Andronov and Bouche [1], the author develops some techniques for deriving explicit formulas for the asymptotic currents on a strongly elongated object of revolution excited by an electromagnetic plane wave propagating in the paraxial direction. The performance of the different techniques are demonstrated by comparing numerical results obtained for the asymptotic currents on an elongated prolate ellipsoid with those obtained by solving the EFIE.

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Dr. Frederic Molinet