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Method of Transverse Displacements Formulation for Calculating the HF Radio Wave Propagation Paths. Statement of the Problem and Preliminary Results

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Fundamentals of the method of transverse displacements for calculating the HF radio-wave propagation paths are presented. The method is based on the direct variational principle for the optical path functional, but is not reduced to solving the Euler—Lagrange equations. Instead, the initial guess given by an ordered set of points is transformed successively into a ray path, while its endpoints corresponding to the positions of the transmitter and the receiver are kept fixed throughout the entire iteration process. The results of calculation by the method of transverse displacements are compared with known analytical solutions. The importance of using only transverse displacements of the ray path in the optimization procedure is also demonstrated.

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  1. I. Kant Baltic Federal University, Kaliningrad, Russia

    I. A. Nosikov & M. V. Klimenko

  2. Royal Technological Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

    P. F. Bessarab

  3. State University of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia

    P. F. Bessarab

  4. University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

    P. F. Bessarab

  5. N. V. Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Radio Wave Propagation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Western Branch), Kaliningrad, Russia

    M. V. Klimenko

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 1–14, January 2016.

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Nosikov, I.A., Bessarab, P.F. & Klimenko, M.V. Method of Transverse Displacements Formulation for Calculating the HF Radio Wave Propagation Paths. Statement of the Problem and Preliminary Results. Radiophys Quantum El 59, 1–12 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11141-016-9670-1

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