Field-Only Surface Integral Equations: Scattering from a Perfect Electric Conductor

Published

February 1, 2020

Author(s)

Qiang Sun, Evert Klaseboer, Alex Yuffa, Derek Y. Chan

Abstract

A field-only boundary integral formulation of electromagnetics is derived without the use of surface currents that appear in the Stratton--Chu formulation. For scattering by a perfect electrical conductor (PEC), the components of the electric field are obtained directly from surface integral equation solutions of three scalar Helmholtz equations for the field components. The divergence-free condition is enforced via a boundary condition on the normal component of the field and its normal derivative. Field values and their normal derivatives at the surface of the PEC are obtained directly from surface integral equations that do not contain divergent kernels. Consequently, high-order elements with fewer degrees of freedom can be used to represent surface features to a higher precision than the traditional planar elements. This theoretical framework is illustrated with numerical examples that provide further physical insight into the role of the surface curvature in scattering problems.

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Journal of the Optical Society of America A

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Journals

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https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.378665

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Keywords

Boundary element methods, boundary integral equations, electric field integral equation, electromagnetic propagation, electromagnetic scattering, electromagnetic theory, Helmholtz equations, magnetic field integral equation, Maxwell equations, vector wave equation

Citation

Sun, Q. , Klaseboer, E. , Yuffa, A. and Chan, D. (2020), Field-Only Surface Integral Equations: Scattering from a Perfect Electric Conductor, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, [online], https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAA.378665, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=927222 (Accessed April 24, 2024)