Characterising small objects in the regime between the eddy current model and wave propagation
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Publication:6412136
arXiv2209.13550MaRDI QIDQ6412136FDOQ6412136
Authors: Paul D. Ledger, William R. B. Lionheart 
Publication date: 27 September 2022
Abstract: Being able to characterise objects at low frequencies, but above the limiting frequency of the eddy current approximation of the Maxwell system, is important for improving current metal detection technologies. Importantly, the upper frequency limit of the eddy current model depends on the object topology and on its materials, with the maximum frequency being much smaller for certain geometries compared to others of the same size and materials. Additionally, the eddy current model breaks down at much smaller frequencies for highly magnetic conducting materials compared to non-permeable objects (with similar conductivities, sizes and shapes) and, hence, characterising small magnetic objects made of permeable materials using the eddy current at typical frequencies of operation for a metal detector is not always possible. To address this, we derive a new asymptotic expansion for permeable highly conducting objects that is valid for small objects and holds for frequencies just beyond the eddy current limit. The leading order term we derive leads to new forms of object characterisations in terms of polarizability tensor object descriptions where the coefficients can be obtained from solving vectorial transmission problems. We expect these new characterisations to be important when considering objects at greater stand-off distance from the coils, which is important for safety critical applications, such as the identification of landmines, unexploded ordnance and concealed weapons. We also expect our results to be important when characterising artefacts of archaeological and forensic significance at greater depths than the eddy current model allows and to have further applications parking sensors and improving the detection of hidden, out-of-sight, metallic objects.
Dependence of solutions to PDEs on initial and/or boundary data and/or on parameters of PDEs (35B30) Maxwell equations (35Q61) Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Inverse problems (including inverse scattering) in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A46)
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