Transient Response of Straight Thin Wires Located at Different Heights Above a Ground Plane Using Antenna Theory and Transmission Line Approach

Transient electromagnetic field coupling to straight thin wires parallel to each other and located at different heights above a perfectly conducting or dielectric ground plane is analyzed using wire antenna theory and a transmission line method. The time-domain antenna theory formulation is based on a set of the space-time Hallen integral equations. The transmission line approximation is based on the corresponding time-domain Telegrapher's equations. The space-time integral equations arising from the wire antenna theory are handled by the time-domain Galerkin-Bubnov scheme of the indirect boundary element method. The time-domain Telegrapher's equations are solved using the finite-difference time-domain method. Time-domain numerical results obtained with both approaches are compared to the results computed via NEC 2 code combined with an inverse Fourier transform procedure. Some illustrative comparisons of results obtained by means of antenna theory and transmission line approach are presented throughout the paper.

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