
400 13 Electromagnetic Wave Propagation
In this problem, both the coil and the point of observation are initially
assumed to be in the air. They are finally brought down to the surface of the
earth to have a simplified solution to the problem. However, researchers can
introduce further complexities in the problem and arrive at a more general
solution taking this solution as a starting point. The simplest problems are
presented in this section. Many problems in this series have alre ady been
solved and they are available in published literatures. The problem due to
an oscillating magnetic dipole z is solved using Fitzeral d vector potential
F. From Sect. (13.2) we have seen that the expression for vector potential
at a distance r due to an oscillating electric dipole is
Π=
be
−γr
r
. Similarly
we have written the expression for the source potential for vertical magnetic
dipole as
F=m.
e
−γr
r
(13.103)
where m is the moment of the di pol e. For electric dipole
m=a
l
Il
4π(σ +iω ∈)
(13.104)
and for magnetic dipole
m=a
n
IS
4π
(13.105)
where S is the surface area of the current carrying coil. a
l
and a
n
are resp ec-
tively the unit vectors. Our problem is to find out the field s at any point
either outside o r on the surface of the earth. Moment of the vertical magnetic
dipole is directed normal to the boundary. The boundary plane is the air earth
boundary and the oscillating dipole is placed at a height ‘h’ from the surface.
The magnetic dipoles are taken along the z direction and are represented by
the Fitzerald vector
F. Basic structures of this type of boundary value prob-
lems are more or less the same with some problem dependent variations in
finer details.
This type of boundary value problems start with electromagnetic wave
equations. The Laplacian operator, to b e used, varies from source to source
of the electromagnetic waves. The problem can be solved either in
Eand
H
field domain as done in Sect. 13.1 or in vector potential domain as shown in
Sect. 13.2 to 13.8. The EM wave partial differential equations are solved using
the method of separation of variables. Once potential problems are solved in
a vector potential domain, one can obtain the electric and magnetic fields
using the appropriate relations between vector potentials and
Eand
Hfields
((13.72) to (13.74) and (13.76) to (13.77)). These relations are connectors
between
Eand
Hfieldwith
Πor
For
Aandφ,asdiscussedintheprevi-
ous chapter. In the (
A, φ) formulation φ is a scalar potential. At this stage
one has to find out the vanishing and non-vanishing components of the
E
and
H fields.Physics and geometry of the problems help in determining the
zero and non-zero c omp onents of the EM fields. The source potential and