Solution Of Electromagnetic Boundary Value Problems Research Articles

Uniqueness of the solution of electromagnetic boundary-value problems in the presence of lossy and piecewise homogeneous lossless dielectrics

In this paper, the uniqueness of the solution of electromagnetic boundary-value problems is investigated and, in some cases, proven. The boundary-value problems considered are always defined in limited regions containing linear dielectric materials that are neither lossy nor lossless everywhere. The boundary conditions are given by specifying over the closed boundaries either the tangential components of the electric field or the tangential components of the magnetic field (or possibly by specifying the tangential components of the electric field over part of the boundaries and the tangential components of the magnetic field over the rest of the boundaries). In particular, the solution is proven to be unique in the case of linear dielectric materials which are piecewise homogeneous and lossless, except for some linear and lossy subregions that may be inhomogeneous. As a byproduct of this analysis, one can conclude that a cavity resonator, loaded with linear and lossy dielectrics together with linear piecewise homogeneous and lossless dielectric materials, does not admit undamped resonances.

A multi-purpose modular program for the numerical solution of electromagnetic boundary-value problems

This paper describes a program for the solution of boundary-value problems of the elliptic type by means of the finite-element method and a generalized finite-difference method developed by the authors. The program is oriented toward the reduction of input operations to those strictly needed to define a given problem physically, and it has been designed to allow automatic grid optimization. The generalized finite-difference method can handle completely irregular grids, and allows the discretization of any form of second-order elliptic equation under general boundary and interface conditions. To show the potentiality of the method, an example of magnetic field problem with sharp boundary, non-homogeneous anisotropic material and non-uniform current density distribution is presented, and the results are compared with the theoretical solution. Finally, the results obtained and the potentiality of the program are discussed.