2.5-D modeling of cross-hole electromagnetic measurement by nite element method

A finite element method is developed for simulating frequency domain electromagnetic responses due to a dipole source in the 2-D conductive structures. Computing costs are considerably minimized by reducing the full three-dimensional problem to a series of two-dimensional problems. This is accomplished by transforming the problem into y-wave number （Ky） domain using Fourier transform and the y-axis is parallel to the structural strike. In the Ky domain, two coupled partial differential equations for magnetic field Hy and electric field Ey are derived. For a specific value of Ky, the coupled equations are solved by the finite element method with isoparametric elements in the x-z plane. Application of the inverse Fourier transform to the Ky, domain provides the electric and magnetic fields in real space. The equations derived can be applied to general complex two-dimensional structures containing either electric or magnetic dipole source in any direction. In the modeling of the electromagnetic measurement, we adopted a pseudo-delta function to distribute the dipole source current and circumvent the problem of singularity at the source point. Moreover, the suggested method used isoparametric finite elements to accommodate the complex subsurface formation. For the large scale linear system derived from the discretization of the Maxwell＇s equations, several iterative solvers were used and compared to select the optimal one. A quantitative test of accuracy was presented which compared the finite element results with analytic solutions for a dipole source in homogeneous space for different ranges and different wave numbers Ky. to validate the addressed the effects of the distribution range τ of the homogeneous medium. code and check its effectiveness. In addition, we pseudo-delta function on the numerical results in

Meshing effects of the 3-D FEM numerical modeling in seismo-electromagnetics:An application in selectivity of seismic electric signal (SES)

We investigated how density and quality of mesh around interest domain affect electromagnetic （EM） responses of 3D Earth layered media using finite element method （FEM）. Effect of different mesh shapes was also investigated using a method of mixing structured and unstructured mesh. As a case study, we estimated the effects of meshing on selectivity phenomenon of seismic electric signal （SES）. Our results suggest that the relative errors resulting from mesh effects may not be negligible, which may lead to some unconvincing explanation of the SES selectivity based on the numerical modeling results.

Effect of desorbed gas on microwave breakdown on vacuum side of dielectric window

The gas desorbed from the dielectric surface has a great influence on the characteristics of microwave breakdown on the vacuum side of the dielectric window. In this paper, the dielectric surface breakdown is described by using the electromagnetic particle-in-cell-Monte Carlo collision(PIC-MCC) model. The process of desorption of gas and its influence on the breakdown characteristics are studied. The simulation results show that, due to the accumulation of desorbed gas, the pressure near the dielectric surface increases in time, and the breakdown mechanism transitions from secondary electron multipactor to collision ionization. More and more electrons generated by collision ionization drift to the dielectric surface, so that the amplitude of self-organized normal electric field increases in time and sometimes points to the dielectric surface. Nevertheless, the number of secondary electrons emitted in each microwave cycle is approximately equal to the number of primary electrons. In the early and middle stages of breakdown, the attenuation of the microwave electric field near the dielectric surface is very small. However, the collision ionization causes a sharp increase in the number density of electrons,and the microwave electric field decays rapidly in the later stage of breakdown. Compared with the electromagnetic PIC-MCC simulation results, the mean energy and number of electrons obtained by the electrostatic PIC-MCC model are overestimated in the later stage of breakdown because it does not take into account the attenuation of microwave electric field. The pressure of the desorbed gas predicted by the electromagnetic PIC-MCC model is close to the measured value,when the number of gas atoms desorbed by an incident electron is taken as 0.4.

Computer Analysis of Electromagnetic Transients in Grounding Systems Considering Variation of Soil Parameters with Frequency

This paper presents a mathematical model to calculate transients in grounding systems. The derived equations arise from direct application of basic electromagnetic equations in frequency domain, whose solution is obtained by the application of the Moment Methods. A formulation based on experimental measurements is applied to quantify the soil parameters for each frequency. The unified approach is applied in the calculation of the grounding impedance of horizontal electrodes. Results show that the inclusion of frequency dependence of the soil parameters leads to a reduction of the values of grounding impedance, in comparison with results for soils with parameters independent of frequency.

An electromagnetic view of relay time in propagation of neural signals

We review the experimental and computational data about the propagation of neural signals in myelinated axons in mice,cats,rabbits,and frogs published in the past five decades.In contrast to the natural assumption that neural signals occur one by one in time and in space,we figure out that neural signals are highly overlapped in time between neighboring nodes.This phenomenon was occasionally illustrated in some early reports,but seemed to have been overlooked for some time.The shift in time between two successive neural signals from neighboring nodes,defined as relay timeτ,was calculated to be only 16.3μs-87.0μs,i.e.,0.8%-4.4%of the average duration of an action potential peak(roughly 2 ms).We present a clearer picture of the exact physical process about how the information transmits along a myelinated axon,rather than a whole action potential peak,what is transmitted is only a rising electric field caused by transmembrane ion flows.Here in the paper,τrepresents the waiting time until the neighboring node senses an attenuated electric field reaching the threshold to trigger the open state.The mechanisms addressed in this work have the potential to be universal,and may hold clues to revealing the exact triggering processes of voltage-gated ion channels and various brain functions.

A numerical analytic method for electromagnetic radiation accompanying with fracture of rocks

This paper studies Rabinovitch＇s compression experiments on granite and chalk and proposes a.n oscillating dipole model to analyse and simulate the electromagnetic radiation phenomenon caused by fracture of rocks. Our model assumes that the electromagnetic radiation pulses are initiated by vibrations of the charged rock grains on the tips of the crack. The vibrations of the rock grains are stimulated by the pulses of the cracks. Our simulations show comparable results with Rabinovitch＇s compression experiments. From the simulation results, it verifies an assumption that the crack width is inversely proportional to the circular frequency electromagnetic radiation, which is presented by Rabinovitch et al. The simulation results also imply that, by using our oscillating dipole model together with Rabinovitch＇s two equations about the crack length and crack width, we can quantitatively analyse and simulate the electromagnetic radiation phenomenon, which is induced from the fracture of the rocks.

Optimization of strand and final electromagnetic stirrers of round bloom casters with multiple sections

Strand electromagnetic stirring（S-EMS） and final electromagnetic stirring（F-EMS） are the main methods used to improve the center porosity and segregation for round blooms. To optimize the stirring conditions, nail shooting tests were conducted for three sections of large round blooms with diameters of ф380 mm, ф450 mm, and ф600 mm. Acid leaching and sulfur print tests were used to investigate the shell thickness. Based on the results of nail shooting tests, a mathematical model of solidification was established, and the variation of shell thickness and the central solid fraction were exactly calculated by the model. By taking all sections into account, the locations of S-EMS and F-EMS were optimized for each section. In the results, the macro-segregation of various sections is improved after the locations of S-EMS and F-EMS systems are changed.

Exploitation of Electromagnetic Models for Sea Wind Speed Estimation from C-Band Sentinel-1 Images

Among the different available wind sources, i.e. in situ measurements, numeric weather models, the retrieval of wind speed from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data is one of the most widely used methods, since it can give high wind resolution cells. For this purpose, one can find two principal approaches: via electromagnetic (EM) models and empirical (EP) models. In both approaches, the Geophysical Model Functions (GMFs) are used to describe the relation of radar scattering, wind speed, and the geometry of observations. By knowing radar scattering and geometric parameters, it is possible to invert the GMFs to retrieve wind speed. It is very interesting to compare wind speed estimated by the EM models, general descriptions of radar scattering from sea surface, to the one estimated by the EP models, specific descriptions for the inverse problem. Based on the comparisons, some ideas are proposed to improve the performance of the EM models for wind speed retrieval.

Virtual electromagnetic environment modeling based data augmentation for drone signal identification

Radio frequency(RF)-based drone identification technologies have the advantages of long effective distances and low environmental dependence,which has become indispensable for drone surveillance systems.However,since drones operate in unlicensed frequency bands,a large number of co-frequency devices exist in these bands,which brings a great challenge to traditional signal identification methods.Deep learning techniques provide a new approach to complete endto-end signal identification by directly learning the distribution of RF data.In such scenarios,due to the complexity and high dynamics of the electromagnetic environments,a massive amount of data that can reflect the various propagation conditions of drone signals is necessary for a robust neural network(NN)for identifying drones.In reality,signal acquisition and labeling that meet the above requirements are too costly to implement.Therefore,we propose a virtual electromagnetic environment modeling based data augmentation(DA)method to improve the diversity of drone signal data.The DA method focuses on simulating the spectrograms of drone signals transmitted in real-world environments and randomly generates extra training data in each training epoch.Furthermore,considering the limited processing capability of RF receivers,we modify the original YOLOv5s model to a more lightweight version.Without losing the identification performance,more hardware-friendly designs are applied and the number of parameters decreases about 10-fold.For performance evaluation,we utilized a universal software radio peripheral(USRP)X310 platform to collect RF signals of four drones in an anechoic chamber and a practical wireless scenario.Experiment results reveal that the NN trained with augmented data performs as well as that trained with practical data in the complex electromagnetic environment.

Numerical Simulation of Azimuthal Uniformity of Injection Currents in Single-Point-Feed Induction Voltage Adders

In order to investigate the injection current uniformity around the induction cell bores, two fully electromagnetic （EM） models are respectively established for a single-stage induction cell and an induction voltage adder （IVA） with three cells stacked in series, without considering electron emission. By means of these two models, some factors affecting the injection current uni- formity are simulated and analyzed, such as the impedances of adders and loads, cell locations, and feed timing of parallel driving pulses. Simulation results indicate that higher impedances of adder and loads are slightly beneficial to improve injection current uniformity. As the impedances of adder and loads increase from 5 Ω to 30Ω, the asymmetric coefficient of feed currents decreases from 10.3% to 6.6%. The current non-uniformity within the first cell is a little worse than that in other downstream cells. Simulation results also show that the feed timing would greatly affect current waveforms, and consequently cause some distortion in pulse fronts of cell output voltages. For a given driving pulse with duration time of 70-80 ns, the feed timing with a time deviation of less than 20 ns is acceptable for the three-cell IVAs, just causing the rise time of output voltages to increase about 5 ns at most and making the peak voltage decrease by 3.5%.

Propagation characteristics of microwaves in dusty plasmas with multi-collisions

In this study, we consider three main collisions in dusty plasmas and investigate the effects of dust grains on the propagation of electromagnetic（EM） waves through uniform, unmagnetized and weakly ionized dusty plasma. The Drude model is improved to describe the dielectric property of dusty plasmas, which accounts for collisions including electron–molecule, electron–ion, and electron–dust particles. Based on the improved Drude model, the propagation characteristics of microwaves in dusty plasmas have been numerically calculated and studied.The results show that the propagation characteristics of microwaves through dusty plasmas are different from those through normal plasmas. The effects of dust density and size are mainly studied. Numerical results indicate that the momentum transfer between electrons and dust grains makes more energy loss. The dust density and dust size have a similar influence on EM wave propagation, resulting in less transmission and more absorption.

REALISTIC AND CORRECT MODELS OF IMPRESSED SOURCES FOR TIME-HARMONIC ELECTROMAGNETIC BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS INVOLVING METAMATERIALS

The aim of this work is to analyze the role of the impressed sources in determining the well or ill-posedness of time harmonic electromagnetic boundary value problems involving isotropic effective media.It is shown,in particular,that,even if all interfaces are regular,the class of ill-posed problems can be very large in the presence of general square-integrable impressed sources.However,when a simple and realistic constraint is enforced on these sources,requiring that the support of the sources does not include any interface between a traditional medium and a metamaterial,among the problems here considered just those involving an interface between complementary materials remain ill-posed.These considerations have a very significant impact also on the approximability of the solution of well-posed problems since the numerical noise can introduce small fictitious sources even where the sources to be simulated are not present.These effects on finite element simulators are fully analyzed.Finally,we propose an algorithm that allows to obtain much better approximations of the solutions of the most critical wellposed problems.

FEM-based modeling of microsphereenhanced interferometry

To improve the lateral resolution in microscopic imaging,microspheres are placed close to the object’s surface in order to support the imaging process by optical near-field information.Although microsphere-assisted measurements are part of various recent studies,no generally accepted explanation for the effect of microspheres exists.Photonic nanojets,enhancement of the numerical aperture,whispering-gallery modes and evanescent waves are usually named reasons in context with microspheres,though none of these effects is proven to be decisive for the resolution enhancement.We present a simulation model of the complete microscopic imaging process of microsphere-enhanced interference microscopy including a rigorous treatment of the light scattering process at the surface of the specimen.The model consideres objective lenses of high numerical aperture providing 3D conical illumination and imaging.The enhanced resolution and magnification by the microsphere is analyzed with respect to the numerical aperture of the objective lenses.Further,we give a criterion for the achievable resolution and demonstrate that a local enhancement of the numerical aperture is the most likely reason for the resolution enhancement.

Bio-Inspired Electromagnetic Protection Based on Neural Information Processing

Electronic systems are vulnerable in electromagnetic interference environment. Although many solutions are adopted to solve this problem, for example shielding, filtering and grounding, noise is still introduced into the circuit inevitably. What impresses us is the biological nervous system with a vital property of robustness in noisy environment. Some mechanisms, such as neuron population coding, degeneracy and parallel distributed processing, are believed to partly explain how the nervous system counters the noise and component failure. This paper proposes a novel concept of bio-inspired electromagnetic protec- tion making reference to the characteristic of neural information processing. A bionic model is presented here to mimic neuron populations to transform the input signal into neural pulse signal. In the proposed model, neuron provides a dynamic feedback to the adjacent one according to the concept of synaptic plasticity. A simple neural circuitry is designed to verify the rationality of the bio-inspired model for electromagnetic protection. The experiment results display that bio-inspired electromagnetic pro- tection model has more power to counter the interference and component failure.

Simplified modeling of electromagnets for dynamic simulation of transient effects for a synchronous electric motor

This study aims to show an approach for the dynamic simulation of a synchro-nous machine.The magnetic forces in the air gap are calculated efficiently using simplified approaches without neglecting important effects.For the modeling of the magnetic forces,an equivalent magnetic circuit is constructed in which the magnetic saturation and the leakage flux are taken into account and coupled with the electrical circuit at the end.The calculated magnetic forces are then passed to a mechanical model of the motor.Together with a predefinable load torque,the resulting motor rotation and the forces in the bearings are identified.The presented model is then investigated in a small example.This novel ap-proach is intended to provide a method of calculating dynamically the forces transmitted from the shaft to the motor housing and to create the basis for evaluating electric motors for vibrations,noise,and harshness under varying loads and input voltages.

Ultrabroadband chiral metasurface for linear polarization conversion and asymmetric transmission based on enhanced interference theory

In this paper,we propose an ultrabroadband chiral metasurface(CMS)composed of S-shaped resonator structures situated between two twisted subwavelength gratings and dielectric substrate.This innovative structure enables ultrabroadband and high-efficiency linear polarization(LP)conversion,as well as asymmetric transmission(AT)effect in the microwave region.The enhanced interference effect of the Fabry-Perot-like resonance cavity greatly expands the bandwidth and efficiency of LP conversion and AT effect.Through numerical simulations,it has been revealed that the cross-polarization transmission coefficients for normal forward(-z)and backward(+z)incidence exceed 0.8 in the frequency range of 4.13 to 17.34 GHz,accompanied by a polarization conversion ratio of over 99%.Furthermore,our microwave experimental results validate the consistency among simulation,theory,and measurement.Additionally,we elucidate the distinct characteristics of ultrabroadband LP conversion and significant AT effect through analysis of polarization azimuth rotation and ellipticity angles,total transmittance,AT coefficient,and electric field distribution.The proposed CMS structure shows excellent polarization conversion properties via AT effect and has potential applications in areas such as radar,remote sensing,and satellite communication.

Relativistic compact stars with charged anisotropic matter

In this article, we perform a detailed theoretical analysis of new exact solutions with anisotropic fluid distribution of matter for compact objects subject to hydrostatic equilibrium. We present a family solution to the Einstein-Maxwell equations describing a spherically symmetric, static distribution of a fluid with pressure anisotropy.We implement an embedding class one condition to obtain a relation between the metric functions. We generalize the properties of a spherical star with hydrostatic equilibrium using the generalised Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff(TOV)equation. We match the interior solution to an exterior Reissner-Nordstr?m one, and study the energy conditions,speed of sound, and mass-radius relation of the star. We also show that the obtained solutions are compatible with observational data for the compact object Her X-1. Regarding our results, the physical behaviour of the present model may serve for the modeling of ultra compact objects.