Angular Spectral Density and Information Entropy for Eddy Current Distribution

Here, a new method is proposed to quantitatively evaluate the eddy current distribution induced by different exciting coils of an eddy current probe. Probability of energy allocation of a vector field is modeled via conservation of energy and imitating the wave function in quantum mechanics. The idea of quantization and the principle of circuit sampling is utilized to discretize the space of the vector field. Then, a method to calculate angular spectral density and Shannon information entropy is proposed. Eddy current induced by three different exciting coils is evaluated with this method, and the specific nature of eddy current testing is discussed.

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