A novel representation of electromagnetic field interaction with vertically stratified structures

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to develop an efficient model to solve the electromagnetic forward problem using a novel semi-analytical approach to compute the electromagnetic fields because of the presence of a scatterer.

Design/methodology/approach

The proposed model involves a novel formulation of a complete orthonormal set of radiating/nonradiating polarization currents. Furthermore, an integral equation-based representation is derived, and the appropriate boundary conditions are imposed to get the scattered electromagnetic field. An error term is introduced to evaluate the obtained results.

Findings

The proposed model was tested using several examples at different frequencies. The results of this study show that the novel representation exhibits fast convergence behavior and achieves highly accurate results, when compared to the results provided by the transmission line method.

Originality/value

The derived formulations presented in this study are significant in the electromagnetic forward modelling field because of the meaningful physical representation they provide. This is an important aspect that leads to precise calculation of electromagnetic fields for various applications.

Citation

Elkattan, M. and Kamel, A.H. (2023), "A novel representation of electromagnetic field interaction with vertically stratified structures", COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, Vol. 42 No. 6, pp. 1624-1640. https://doi.org/10.1108/COMPEL-09-2022-0319