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Abstract

The electromagnetic rays might be shaded when an obstacle occurs in its way. In this paper, the close analytic expressions determining whether a ray is shaded by boards, elliptic cylinders, elliptic spheres and elliptic cones are presented based on general principle of Geometrical Optics. In optical methods like GTD or UTD in computational electromagnetics which are based on various rays, what studied in this paper with the advantages of analytical measures can be useful to keep the rays valid. Several examples are given as further proof.

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Professor Chang-Hong Liang

Dr. Zi-Liang Liu

Dr. Hao Di