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Why is multiple knife edge diffraction difficult to compute?

  • A.The obstacles interfere with each other's reflection coefficients
  • B.Terrain data is never accurate enough to locate the obstacles
  • C.The frequency dependence differs from one obstacle to the next
  • D.Each obstacle diffracts the field already diffracted by the previous one

Answer: D

The field arriving at the second obstacle is not a plane wave but the diffracted field of the first, so the losses do not simply add and rigorous treatment becomes involved. Bullington, Epstein-Peterson and Deygout are the standard approximations, each with known biases. Reflection, data accuracy and frequency behaviour are secondary. A problem in which each stage changes the input to the next is inherently harder than one in which contributions are independent.

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