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Finitely conducting, infinitely long, cylindrical wire in the presence of a plane wave (emp)

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6879691
The time-domain current induced in an infinitely long, finitely conducting wire in the presence of a plane electromagnetic wave with its magnetic field perpendicular to the wire axis is determined by first finding the frequency-domain (phasor) solution. This is accomplished by using both a magnetic vector potential and an electric vector potential, and then treating the problem as a boundary-value problem. The time-domain current is found by performing the inverse Fourier transform numerically. Results indicate that the early time behavior is essentially that of a lossless wire, and the major effect is that the current dies out for large time much faster with loss than without loss.
Research Organization:
Tennessee Univ., Knoxville (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-84OR21400
OSTI ID:
6879691
Report Number(s):
DOE/OR/21400-T36; ON: DE84015363
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English