Full-wave method of calculation of electromagnetic fields in stratified media

Abstract

Stanford Full Wave Method (SFWM) is capable of calculating monochromatic electromagnetic waves in an arbitrary stationary anisotropic plane-stratified medium with arbitrary dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability tensors, given in each layer of the medium. The electromagnetic radiation may be emitted by an arbitrary configuration of harmonically varying currents (both electric and magnetic). The typical problems to which SFWM has been applied are: (1) transport of plane waves upward through the ionosphere and their attenuation; (2) radiation from ionosphere regions, such as electrojet currents modulated by HF heating; (3) radiation from ground-based transmitters; (4) radiation from lightning; (5) Earth-ionosphere waveguide modes; (6) scattering on ionospheric disturbances.