Accession Number:

AD0679778

Title:

A PROGRAM FOR COMPUTING TRANSMISSION OF PLANE ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES THROUGH AN INHOMOGENEOUS PLASMA SLAB

Descriptive Note:

Rept. for Feb-Mar 1968

Corporate Author:

AEROSPACE CORP EL SEGUNDO CA LAB OPERATIONS

Personal Author(s):

• Pridmore-Brown, David C.

Report Date:

1968-07-01

Pagination or Media Count:

22.0

Abstract:

A computer program for calculating plane wave transmission through an inhomogeneous cold plasma slab is described. The program accepts arbitrary profiles including jumps in number density and collision frequency. It prints out the electric and magnetic field profiles for the angles of incidence, direction of incidence, and polarizations of the wave that are called for. It also gives the reflection and transmission coefficients in each case.

Descriptors:

• *RADIO TRANSMISSION
• *PLASMA SHEATHS
• COMPUTER PROGRAMS
• MAGNETIC FIELDS
• POLARIZATION
• ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE REFLECTIONS
• ELECTRON DENSITY
• ELECTRIC FIELDS
• ATTENUATION

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software
• Plasma Physics and Magnetohydrodynamics
• Radio Communications

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE