The decoupled potential integral equation for time-harmonic electromagnetic scattering

DOI10.1002/CPA.21585MaRDI QIDQ2802898zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Felipe Vico, Miguel Ferrando, Zydrunas Gimbutas, Leslie Greengard

Publication date 27 April 2016

Published in Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.0749, http://hdl.handle.net/10251/64857

zbMATH Keywords

electromagnetic wave scatteringFredholm integral equationLorenz gaugescalar potentialvector potential

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Maxwell equations (35Q61) Fredholm integral equations (45B05) Numerical methods for integral equations (65R20) Diffraction, scattering (78A45)

Abstract: We present a new formulation for the problem of electromagnetic scattering from perfect electric conductors. While our representation for the electric and magnetic fields is based on the standard vector and scalar potentials $$ in the Lorenz gauge, we establish boundary conditions on the potentials themselves, rather than on the field quantities. This permits the development of a well-conditioned second kind Fredholm integral equation which has no spurious resonances, avoids low frequency breakdown, and is insensitive to the genus of the scatterer. The equations for the vector and scalar potentials are decoupled. That is, the unknown scalar potential defining the scattered field, $ph{i}^{Sc}$, is determined entirely by the incident scalar potential $ph{i}^{In}$. Likewise, the unknown vector potential defining the scattered field, $$, is determined entirely by the incident vector potential $$. This decoupled formulation is valid not only in the static limit but for arbitrary $omegage0$.

Review text

The authors elaborate a modified Dirichlet problem for the scattering of electromagnetic waves from perfect electric conductors, by first decoupling the equations for scalar and vector potentials applying the appropriate gauge transformation, and, second, by solving the resulting Fredholm integral equations with specified boundary conditions imposed on the potentials rather than electromagnetic field components. The proposed method is discussed in terms of mathematical exactness and applicability to different geometries.

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