Closed-Form Spectral-Domain Green's Functions for Infinitesimal Current Source in Multilayer Soil

Abstract

This article deals with an infinitesimal current source (ICS) in a multilayer conducting medium that consists of air and multilayer soil. Closed-form kernel functions of the spectral-domain Green's function for scalar electric and vector magnetic potentials (Lorentz potentials) were obtained for every layer of the multilayered medium as analytic solutions of the systems of linear equations. Validation of the proposed closed-form expressions is performed by numerical solving of the system of linear equations and by numerical comparison with expressions derived from existing closed-form expressions developed for the source layer of the multilayer dielectric medium. For an arbitrary-oriented ICS, scalar electric potential of its horizontal component is chosen as a unique scalar electric potential. Accordingly, dyadic Green's function of vector magnetic potential is corrected.