Scattering of inhomogeneous plane waves by a cylindrical reflector

In this thesis, scattering by a cylindrical reflector which has a Perfectly Magnetic Conductor (PMC) surface illuminated by a inhomogeneous plane waves were investigated. The physical optics method (PO), one of the current based methods, has been used in this study. The current induced by the incident wave on the cylindric reflector has been found by aid of the boundary conditions. The obtained current has formed the kernel of the PO scattering integral of the PO scattering integral by the method of stationary phase method (SP), yields the geometrical optics (GO). The edge diffracted fields have been obtaiened by using the edge point method. At first, the solutions were obtained for the homogenous waves. Later on, considering the analytical conditions, the result were extended by interesting the complex angle values instead of real angle values. Lastly, the obtained expressions have been numerically analyzed for the parameters such as the reflectors of different sizes and different complex angle values.