2-DAL SIMULATION OF EM FIELDS RADIATED BY ROTATING CYLINDER CARRYING SURFACE CURRENTS USING PASSING CENTER SWING BACK GRIDS TECHNIQUE

Abstract

The passing center swing back grids (PCSBG) technique, in conjunction with the method of characteristics (MOC), was proposed to model electromagnetic problems featured with rotating objects. The drive of this proposal lays mainly on the fact that MOC deflnes all fleld components in the center of grid cell. Its practicability was validated by exhibiting the radiated EM flelds from a rotating cylinder which carries surface currents with Gaussian proflle and ∞owing in the axial direction. To clearly demonstrate that the cylinder is rotating and radiating EM flelds simultaneously, the following arrangements were made. The cylinder may be equally sliced into an even number of segments that are with and without currents alternatively since a rotating circular cylinder yields no relativistic efiects. The computational results showed that the radiated electromagnetic flelds bear vortex structures as the cause of rotating cylinder, which serves as the evidences that PCSBG works properly.