Analysis and computation for the scattering problem of electromagnetic waves in chiral media

Abstract

This paper considers an obstacle scattering problem in a chiral medium under circularly polarized oblique plane wave incidence, which can be represented as a combination of a left-circularly polarized plane wave and a right-circularly polarized one. We apply a reduced model problem with coupled oblique derivative boundary conditions, describing the cross-coupling effect of electric and magnetic fields. A novel boundary integral equation is constructed by introducing single-layer potential operators and the corresponding normal and tangential derivative operators. The corresponding properties are obtained by splitting techniques to overcome the singularity of integral operators. A numerical method for solving the boundary integral equation is developed, whose convergence is proved. Numerical results are presented to show the performance of the proposed method.