Scattering from Cylinders Parallel to a Perfectly Conductive Plane: an Efficient Analysis Tool

The plane-wave scattering from a set of cylinders in presence of a totally reflecting plane is dealt with. In particular, starting from the scattering matrix method which treats the same scattering problem for the free-space, we exploit image principle arguments to model the additional scattering contributions due to the presence of the conductive plane while still adopting the free-space scattering matrix of each scatterer.