NUMERICAL MODELING OF TROPOSPHERIC RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION USING WAVELETS

The problem of anomalous propagation in troposphere has been studied for many years. Various models are available in literature. Among them, the parabolic wave equation (PWE) method is considered most reliable. The standard PWE with appropriate boundary conditions is solved using various numerica...

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spelling utp-utpedia.230312022-03-11T04:18:10Z http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/23031/ NUMERICAL MODELING OF TROPOSPHERIC RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION USING WAVELETS ,, ASIF IQBAL TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering The problem of anomalous propagation in troposphere has been studied for many years. Various models are available in literature. Among them, the parabolic wave equation (PWE) method is considered most reliable. The standard PWE with appropriate boundary conditions is solved using various numerical schemes like Splitstep Fourier method and Finite Element/Difference method. However, these techniques are either less accurate and/or computationally more expensive. In this work, two novel wavelet based numerical algorithms are presented for tropospheric radio wave propagation modeling. First, a Wavelet Galerkin Method (WGM) is developed using Daubechies scaling function as basis functions. The discretization process converts PWE to an Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) which is then solved with Crank-Nicolson (CN) method. Fictitious domain approach is used to incorporate the impedance boundary conditions. It is found that the complexity and computational cost of WGM is almost same as of conventional Finite Element (FE) method and, like FE method, it also requires small range steps for high frequencies. Second, a split-step wavelet method (SSWM) is developed. 2012-07 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/23031/1/Thesis%20-%20Numerical%20Modeling%20of%20Tropospheric%20Radio%20Wave%20Propagation%20Using%20Wavelets%20-%20Asif%20Iqbal.pdf ,, ASIF IQBAL (2012) NUMERICAL MODELING OF TROPOSPHERIC RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION USING WAVELETS. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS.
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NUMERICAL MODELING OF TROPOSPHERIC RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION USING WAVELETS
description The problem of anomalous propagation in troposphere has been studied for many years. Various models are available in literature. Among them, the parabolic wave equation (PWE) method is considered most reliable. The standard PWE with appropriate boundary conditions is solved using various numerical schemes like Splitstep Fourier method and Finite Element/Difference method. However, these techniques are either less accurate and/or computationally more expensive. In this work, two novel wavelet based numerical algorithms are presented for tropospheric radio wave propagation modeling. First, a Wavelet Galerkin Method (WGM) is developed using Daubechies scaling function as basis functions. The discretization process converts PWE to an Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) which is then solved with Crank-Nicolson (CN) method. Fictitious domain approach is used to incorporate the impedance boundary conditions. It is found that the complexity and computational cost of WGM is almost same as of conventional Finite Element (FE) method and, like FE method, it also requires small range steps for high frequencies. Second, a split-step wavelet method (SSWM) is developed.
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title NUMERICAL MODELING OF TROPOSPHERIC RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION USING WAVELETS
title_short NUMERICAL MODELING OF TROPOSPHERIC RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION USING WAVELETS
title_full NUMERICAL MODELING OF TROPOSPHERIC RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION USING WAVELETS
title_fullStr NUMERICAL MODELING OF TROPOSPHERIC RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION USING WAVELETS
title_full_unstemmed NUMERICAL MODELING OF TROPOSPHERIC RADIO WAVE PROPAGATION USING WAVELETS
title_sort numerical modeling of tropospheric radio wave propagation using wavelets
publishDate 2012
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