Accession Number:

ADP011588

Title:

Waves and Fields: From Uniaxial to Biaxial Mediums, in Between and Beyond

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

GLASGOW UNIV (UNITED KINGDOM) DEPT OF MATHEMATICS

Personal Author(s):

• Weiglhofer, W. S.
• Lakhtakia, A.

Report Date:

2000-09-29

Pagination or Media Count:

4.0

Abstract:

First, a consistent perspective for the formulation of constitutive dyadics for biaxial mediums - for the anisotropic dielectric and the full bianisotropic cases - is provided. Then, the connection between the existence of closed-form, infinite-medium, dyadic Green functions and the factorization properties of certain scalar differential operators is explored by focusing on a special type of homogeneous, anisotropic, dielectric medium. Its anisotropy is of a higher degree of complexity than an uniaxial mediums but falls short of a fully biaxial mediums.

Descriptors:

• *DIELECTRICS
• *MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
• *ELECTROMAGNETISM
• ANISOTROPY
• DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
• SCALAR FUNCTIONS
• GREENS FUNCTIONS

Subject Categories:

• Theoretical Mathematics
• Electricity and Magnetism

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE