| Abstract: | A new near-to-far-field transformation that combines the FDTD and the series solution is presented. In this method, near-field data is calculated by FDTD and far-field data is also expressed by series solution. The boundary condition is applied to a virtual surface, which encloses arbitrarily shaped scatterers. In order to verify this method, scattering patterns from this transformation are compared with scattering patterns from exact solution. Numerical results show that errors in the far-field data from this method is less than surface equivalence theorem. Thus, this method is valid for obtaining the far-field data. |
