Analysis of waveguide inserted by a metallic sheet of arbitrary shape with the method of lines

Abstract

In this paper, one type of waveguide three-dimension discontinuity, rectangular waveguide inserted by a metallic sheet of arbitray shape with zero thickness, is firstly analysed by using the Method of Lines. This waveguide discontinuity can be regarded as basic unit of microwave and MMW passive components and active circuits. Numerical results are in good agreement with physical meanings and other published data. Numerical results of several characteristics are presented at the end of the paper, including convergent characteristic of which the scattering parameters are depended on the number of discretization lines, dependence of scattering parameters on the size of metallic sheet and frequency response of scattering parameters.