Abstract: | The effect of an inhomogeneity in the form of a circular cylinder the properties of whose base are described by a certain impedance and whose lateral surface is ideally conducting on the field of a point source in a plane impedance waveguide is studied. In a scalar approximation, the problem is reduced to a two-dimensional integral equation over the surface of the inhomogeneity. A solution is constructed by the method of successive approximations; the solution of the problem for a regular impedance waveguide is used as an initial approximation. The effect of a local ionospheric inhomogeneity on the field of an electrical dipole in the earth-ionosphere waveguide is estimated.Leningrad State University. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 34, No. 8, pp. 908–918, August, 1991. |