Analysis of a Post Discontinuity in an Oversized Circular Waveguide

This paper presents the analysis of scattering characteristics of a radially directed thin post in a circular waveguide using the method of moments. Electric type dyadic Green's function has been used to compute the scattered field in a circular waveguide considering variation of current only in the axial direction of the post. Simulated data on return loss and power coupling in the dominant mode and higher order modes have been compared with the data computed using Ansoft's High Frequency Structure Simulator. The data on return loss and coupling for the incident ${\rm TE}_{11}$ mode have been compared with experimental data.