Two-Dimensional Scattering by a Conducting Elliptic Cylinder Coated With a Homogeneous Anisotropic Shell

A solution to the two-dimensional scattering properties of a conducting elliptic cylinder coated with a confocal homogeneous anisotropic elliptical shell is obtained. The transmitted field of the anisotropic shell is expressed as an integral equation based on waves with different wave numbers and different directions of propagation. The waves in all directions are represented as the eigenfunction expansion in elliptic coordinates in terms of Mathieu functions. In order to solve the nonorthogonality properties of Mathieu functions, Galerkin's method is applied and a matrix is required for the computation of unknown expansion coefficients of the scattered and transmitted fields. Only the transverse magnetic (TM) polarization is presented, while the transverse electric (TE) polarization can be obtained in the same way. Some numerical results are presented in graphical forms. The result is in agreement with that available as expected when a coated elliptic cylinder degenerates to the coated circular one.