Moment method analysis of the magnetic shielding factor of a conducting TM shield at ELF

Abstract

This paper presents an integral equation and method of moments (MoM) solution to the problem of TM transmission by a metallic conducting shield at extremely low frequencies (ELF). In order to accurately compute the total fields interior to the shield, equivalent problems are formulated which avoid the numerically difficult problem of computing the total fields as the sum of the incident plus scattered fields. In particular, the total electric field on the interior surface of the shield is obtained by a volume current equivalent problem, and then the total magnetic field interior to the shield is formulated in terms of equivalent magnetic surface currents flowing on the interior surface of the shield replaced by a perfect conductor.