Analysis of Waterman's method in the case of layered scatterers

DOI10.1155/2017/7862462MaRDI QIDQ1798490zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Victor Farafonov, V. A. Il'in, Vladimir Ustimov, E. A. Volkov

Publication date 23 October 2018

Published in Advances in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/7862462

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Inverse problems (including inverse scattering) in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A46) Composite media; random media in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A48)

Review text

Summary: The method suggested by \textit{P. C. Waterman} [Proc. IEEE 53, No. 8, 805--812 (1965; Zbl 1400.78014)] has been widely used in the last years to solve various light scattering problems. We analyze the mathematical foundations of this method when it is applied to layered nonspherical (axisymmetric) particles in the electrostatic case. We formulate the conditions under which Waterman's method is applicable, that is, when it gives an infinite system of linear algebraic equations relative to the unknown coefficients of the field expansions which is solvable (i.e., the inverse matrix exists) and solutions of the truncated systems used in calculations converge to the solution of the infinite system. The conditions obtained are shown to agree with results of numerical computations. Keeping in mind the strong similarity of the electrostatic and light scattering cases and the agreement of our conclusions with the numerical calculations available for homogeneous and layered scatterers, we suggest that our results are valid for light scattering as well.

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