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Application of the nudged elastic band method to the point-to-point radio wave ray tracing in IRI modeled ionosphere
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- Nosikov, I A (author)
- Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Russia;RAS, Russia
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- Klimenko, M V (author)
- Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Russia;RAS, Russia
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- Bessarab, Pavel F. (author)
- University of Iceland, Iceland;ITMO University, Russia
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- Zhbankov, G A (author)
- Southern Federal University, Russia
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- Elsevier, 2017
- 2017
- English.
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In: Advances in Space Research. - : Elsevier. - 0273-1177 .- 1879-1948. ; 60:2, s. 491-497
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- Point-to-point ray tracing is an important problem in many fields of science. While direct variational methods where some trajectory is transformed to an optimal one are routinely used in calculations of pathways of seismic waves, chemical reactions, diffusion processes, etc., this approach is not widely known in ionospheric point-to-point ray tracing. We apply the Nudged Elastic Band (NEB) method to a radio wave propagation problem. In the NEB Method, a chain of points which gives a discrete representation of the radio wave ray is adjusted iteratively to an optimal configuration satisfying the Fermat's principle, while the endpoints of the trajectory are kept fixed according to the boundary conditions. Transverse displacements define the radio ray trajectory, while springs between the points control their distribution along the ray. The method is applied to a study of point-to-point ionospheric ray tracing, where the propagation medium is obtained with the International Reference Ionosphere model taking into account traveling ionospheric disturbances. A 2 dimensional representation of the optical path functional is developed and used to gain insight into the fundamental difference between high and low rays. We conclude that high and low rays are minima and saddle points of the optical path functional, respectively.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Fysik -- Annan fysik (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Physical Sciences -- Other Physics Topics (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Waves, Signals and Systems
- Vågor, signaler och system
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