Intended for advanced undergraduate or first-year graduate students of electrical engineering, this introduction to electromagnetic fields emphasizes the computation of fields as well as the development of theoretical relations. The first part thus presents the electromagnetic field and Maxwell’s equations with a view toward connecting the disparate applications to the underlying relations, while the second part presents computational methods of solving the equation – which for most practical cases cannot be solvedanalytically.
After a chapter on the basis of vector calculus, the discussion begins with the electromagnetic field and Maxwell’s equations; subsequent chapters treat the special cases of electrostatic and magnetostatic phenomena and introduce electrodynamics and induction.
The subsequent discussion of wave propagation and high-frequency
fields emphasizes such practical matters as propagation in lossy dielectrics, waveguides, and resonators.
The second part begins with a discussion of the finite-element method as a general design tool. Variational techniques are introduced and used to formulate finite-element solutions for static applications.
In subsequent chapters the finite-element method is adapted for solving dynamic problems using Galerkin’s residual method, and hexahedral edge elements are introduced.
The text concludes with discussions of software issues associated with finite-element techniques for field applications, solution methods and program implementation.
Second Edition
Spring Verlag, New York, August 1996, 570 pages
ISBN 0-387-94877-5