Formulation of Single-Source Surface Integral Equation for Electromagnetic Analysis of Composite Penetrable Objects

Abstract: This paper presents a new single-source surface integral equation (SS-SIE) to model composite penetrable objects. In the proposed formulation, the surface electric and magnetic fields on all interior boundaries are first eliminated through combining integral solutions inside each object. Then, by enforcing the surface electric fields in the original and equivalent configurations are equal to each other, an equivalent model with only the electric current density on the outermost boundaries is derived. Compared with other SIEs, like the PMCHWT formulation, all unknowns are residing on the outermost boundaries in the proposed formulation and therefore, less count of unknowns can be obtained. Finally, two numerical examples are carried out to validate the effectiveness of the proposed SS-SIE.