Efficient Computation of Power, Force, and Torque in BEM Scattering Calculations

DOI10.1109/TAP.2015.2438393MaRDI QIDQ4587104zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors M. T. Homer Reid, Steven G. Johnson

Publication date 30 October 2017

Published in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.2966

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Boundary element methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M15)

Abstract: We present concise, computationally efficient formulas for several quantities of interest -- including absorbed and scattered power, optical force (radiation pressure), and torque -- in scattering calculations performed using the boundary-element method (BEM) [also known as the method of moments (MOM)]. Our formulas compute the quantities of interest extit{directly} from the BEM surface currents with no need ever to compute the scattered electromagnetic fields. We derive our new formulas and demonstrate their effectiveness by computing power, force, and torque in a number of example geometries. Free, open-source software implementations of our formulas are available for download online.

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• Vacuum-field-induced state mixing

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