5. P. Hillion, Scattering by a Fast‐Spinning Conducting Cylinder

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Volume 14: Pages 33-36, 2001

Scattering by a FastSpinning Conducting Cylinder

P. Hillion

Institut Henri Poincaré, 86 Bis Route de Croissy, 78110 Le Vésinet, France

A conducting circular cylinder, immersed in an electromagnetic plane wave, spinning with a large velocity, behaves as a perfectly conducting stationary cylinder when the tangential velocity at its surface tends to the velocity of light.

Keywords: scattering by a rotating cylinder, Maxwell's equations in rotating coordinates, relativistic rotations, accelerated motions, Magnus effect

Received: November 3, 1999; Published online: December 15, 2008