Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2018, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (4): 684-692.doi: 10.21629/JSEE.2018.04.03

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Numerical study of radio wave propagation in clear air acoustic scatterer

Panpan WANG(), Chen ZHOU*(), Zhengyu ZHAO()   

  • Received:2017-05-23 Online:2018-08-01 Published:2018-08-30
  • Contact: Chen ZHOU E-mail:810463220@qq.com;chenzhou@whu.edu.cn;zhaozy@whu.edu.cn
  • About author:WANG Panpan was born in 1988. She received her B.S. degree in electronic science and technology from Wuhan Donghu University in 2011. She has been studying for her doctor's degree in Wuhan University from 2011. Her research interests include radio wave scattering propagation and atmospheric acoustic wave propagation. E-mail: 810463220@qq.com|ZHOU Chen was born in 1983. He received his Ph.D. degree in space physics from Wuhan University in 2009. He now is an associate professor in School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University. His research interests include ionosphere physics and ionosphere radio waves propagation. E-mail: chenzhou@whu.edu.cn|ZHAO Zhengyu was born in 1952. He is a professor and doctoral supervisor in School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University. His research interests include ionosphere physics and ionosphere radio waves propagation. E-mail: zhaozy@whu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41204111);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41574146);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41774162);This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41204111; 41574146; 41774162)

Abstract:

This paper numerically investigates the radio wave scattering by the artificial acoustic disturbance in the atmospheric boundary layer. The numerical model is based on the finitedifference time-domain (FDTD) method for radio wave propagation and fluid simulation for atmospheric disturbance by acoustics waves. The characteristics of radio wave scattering propagation in the artificial acoustic perturbations are investigated by this numerical model. The numerical simulation results demonstrate that the radio wave propagation scattered by acoustic scatterer has the characteristic of forward tropospheric scatter. When the radio waves are scattered, they distribute in all directions; a majority of radio waves continues to propagate along the original direction, and only a small part of the energy is scattered. For the same acoustic scatterer, if we merely change the radio wave emission elevation, the horizontal spans of forward scattering radio wave packets centers gradually decrease with the increasing of emission elevations; and the energy of wave packets increases firstly and then decreases with launching elevation, reaching the maximum at a certain angle. If we merely change the wave emitting position, the horizontal spans decrease with the increasing of emission positions, and the energy of wave packets also increases firstly and then decreases with launch position, reaching the maximum at a certain position. This approach can be very promising for atmospheric scatter communications.

Key words: radio waves scattering propagation, clear air atmosphere, acoustic scatterer, scatter communication