An improved MFIE formulation for TE-wave scattering from lossy, inhomogeneous dielectric cylinders

A method-of-moments formulation involving the magnetic-field integral equation (MFIE) is presented for the analysis of nonhomogeneous electric (TE) source. The approach involves the use of triangular subdomain cells, a piecewise linear expansion for the total magnetic field, and point matching at the nodal points of the triangular-cell model. Results for internal fields and radar cross section are presented and shown to be stable and convergent, even for dielectrics characterized by a large-magnitude complex relative permittivity. It is noted that the complementary problem of TM-wave scattering from ferrite cylinders characterized by a permeability function can be treated using the dual to the approach presented.<>