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Homogenized boundary conditions and resonance effects in Faraday cages

Hewett, DP; Hewitt, IJ; (2016) Homogenized boundary conditions and resonance effects in Faraday cages. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences , 472 (2189) , Article 20160062. 10.1098/rspa.2016.0062. Green open access

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Abstract

We present a mathematical study of two-dimensional electrostatic and electromagnetic shielding by a cage of conducting wires (the so-called ‘Faraday cage effect’). Taking the limit as the number of wires in the cage tends to infinity, we use the asymptotic method of multiple scales to derive continuum models for the shielding, involving homogenized boundary conditions on an effective cage boundary. We show how the resulting models depend on key cage parameters such as the size and shape of the wires, and, in the electromagnetic case, on the frequency and polarization of the incident field. In the electromagnetic case, there are resonance effects, whereby at frequencies close to the natural frequencies of the equivalent solid shell, the presence of the cage actually amplifies the incident field, rather than shielding it. By appropriately modifying the continuum model, we calculate the modified resonant frequencies, and their associated peak amplitudes. We discuss applications to radiation containment in microwave ovens and acoustic scattering by perforated shells.

Type: Article
Title: Homogenized boundary conditions and resonance effects in Faraday cages
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2016.0062
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2016.0062
Language: English
Additional information: © 2016 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited
Keywords: Science & Technology, Multidisciplinary Sciences, Science & Technology - Other Topics, Helmholtz equation, multiple scattering, electromagnetic shielding, homogenized boundary conditions, thin periodic interface, method of multiple scales, THIN PERIODIC INTERFACES, WAVE-PROPAGATION, SCATTERING, ASYMPTOTICS
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Mathematics
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1523359
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