Abstract
Taking the attenuation character of the Kelvin wake and the limitation of the traditional two-scale method into account, the practical electromagnetic (EM) scattering model of the Kelvin wake is obtained by using a facet-based model; and for a turbulent ship wake, it is produced by dealing with the wave energy loss rate due to turbulence with the width of turbulent wake closely following a moving ship. The volume scattering theory of foam or bubbles, by using the vector radiation transfer equation, is introduced to modify the traditional two-scale method, a special method for the EM scattering of a turbulent wake, which brings the scattering of ship wakes into better agreement with the real situation.
Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their invaluable comments and suggestions, which led to a great improvement in our manuscript, and we also thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 60871070, the National Pre-research Foundation and the Foundation of the Science and Technology on Electromagnetic Scattering Laboratory to support this kind of research.