Abstract
With the purpose of avoiding very fine mesh cells in the proximity of a thin wire, the modified telegrapher’s equations (MTEs) are employed to describe the thin wire voltage and current distributions, which consequently results in reduced number of unknowns and augmented Courant–Friedrichs–Lewy (CFL) number. As hyperbolic systems, both the MTEs and the Maxwell’s equations are solved by the discontinuous Galerkin time-domain (DGTD) method. In realistic situations, the thin wires could be either driven or loaded by circuit networks. The thin wire–circuit interface performs as a boundary condition for the thin wire solver, where the thin wire voltage and current used for the incoming flux evaluation involved in the DGTD-analyzed MTEs are not available. To obtain this voltage and current, an auxiliary current flowing through the thin wire–circuit interface is introduced at each interface. Corresponding auxiliary equations derived from the invariable property of characteristic variable for hyperbolic systems are developed and solved together with the circuit equations established by the modified nodal analysis (MNA) modality. Furthermore, in order to characterize the field and thin wire interactions, a weighted electric field and a volume current density are added into the MTEs and Maxwell–Ampere’s law equation, respectively. To validate the proposed algorithm, three representative examples are presented.
Recommended Citation
P. Li et al., "Transient analysis of lumped circuit networks-loaded thin wires by DGTD method," IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, vol. 64, no. 6, pp. 2358 - 2369, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Jan 2016.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2016.2543803
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Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Publication Date
June, 2016
