Tem waves in cylindrical systems

✍ Scribed by Parry Moon; Domina Eberle Spencer

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1953
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 415 KB
• Volume: 256
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(53)90607-3

✦ Synopsis

A general theory is developed for TEM waves guided by any form of cylindrical conductors. The vector Laplacian in general curvilinear coordinates leads to very simple equations for E and H.

With electromagnetic waves, a scalar potential does not exist, since curl E # 0. But if E.curl E = 0, a scalar quasipotential • can be introduced, from which the E-vector can be obtained. The use of a quasipotential constitutes a second method for handling TEM waves.

The paper produces no new practical results; but it does develop general equations that are free from the ambiguities existing in previous treatments.