Admittance of a longitudinal waveguide slot radiating into an arbitrary cylindrical structure

In this paper we use a hybrid method to calculate the admittance of a longitudinal slot (of finite length) in a rectangular waveguide, when the slot radiates into a cylindrical outer structure of arbitrary finite cross section. The analysis takes advantage of a Fourier transformation along the cylinder axis, by which the computational effort is drastically reduced. The harmonic spectral currents on the structure are expanded in subsectional triangular basis functions and determined using an electric field integral equation (EFIE) and the moment method. These currents and the corresponding fields are inverse Fourier transformed and matched over the slot to the fields inside the waveguide by an additional moment method approach using entire domain basis functions for the slot field. The calculated slot admittance has good accuracy when compared with measurements on a chosen geometry.<
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