TY - JOUR
T1 - On the Low-Frequency Behavior of Vector Potential Integral Equations for Perfect Electrically Conducting Scatterers
AU - Chen, Rui
AU - Ulku, Huseyin Arda
AU - Andriulli, Francesco P.
AU - Bagci, Hakan
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2022-10-07
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): 2019-CRG8-4056
Acknowledgements: This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 62201264, and in part by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) under Award No 2019-CRG8-4056.
PY - 2022/10/5
Y1 - 2022/10/5
N2 - Low-frequency behavior of vector potential integral equations (VPIEs) for perfect electrically conducting scatterers is investigated. Two equation sets are considered: The first set (VPIE-1) enforces the tangential component of the vector potential on the scatterer surface to be zero and uses the fundamental field relation on its normal component. The second set (VPIE-2) uses the same condition as VPIE-1 for the tangential component of the vector potential but enforces its divergence to be zero. In both sets, unknowns are the electric current and the normal component of the vector potential on the scatterer surface and are expanded using Rao-Wilton-Glisson (RWG) and pulse basis functions, respectively. To achieve a conforming discretization, RWG, scalar Buffa-Christiansen, and pulse testing functions are used. Theoretical and numerical analyses of the resulting matrix systems show that the electric current obtained by solving VPIE-1 has the wrong frequency scaling and is inaccurate at low frequencies.
AB - Low-frequency behavior of vector potential integral equations (VPIEs) for perfect electrically conducting scatterers is investigated. Two equation sets are considered: The first set (VPIE-1) enforces the tangential component of the vector potential on the scatterer surface to be zero and uses the fundamental field relation on its normal component. The second set (VPIE-2) uses the same condition as VPIE-1 for the tangential component of the vector potential but enforces its divergence to be zero. In both sets, unknowns are the electric current and the normal component of the vector potential on the scatterer surface and are expanded using Rao-Wilton-Glisson (RWG) and pulse basis functions, respectively. To achieve a conforming discretization, RWG, scalar Buffa-Christiansen, and pulse testing functions are used. Theoretical and numerical analyses of the resulting matrix systems show that the electric current obtained by solving VPIE-1 has the wrong frequency scaling and is inaccurate at low frequencies.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/682259
UR - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9912315/
U2 - 10.1109/tap.2022.3210650
DO - 10.1109/tap.2022.3210650
M3 - Article
SN - 0018-926X
SP - 1
EP - 1
JO - IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
JF - IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
ER -