Energy-Viewpoint-Based Electromagnetic Modal Analysis

Abstract

In computational physics and mathematical physics, modal analysis method has been one of important study topics. The central purposes of this Post-Doctoral Concluding Report are (1) to reveal the core position of energy viewpoint in the realm of electromagnetic modal analysis; (2) to show how to do energy-viewpoint-based modal analysis for various electromagnetic structures. The major conclusions of this report are that: energy conservation law governs the energy utilization processes of various electromagnetic structures, and its energy source term sustains the steady energy utilization processes; the whole modal space of an electromagnetic structure is spanned by a series of energy-decoupled modes (DMs), which don't have net energy exchange in any integral period; the DMs can be effectively constructed by orthogonalizing energy source operator, which is just the operator form of the energy source term. Specifically speaking: in classical electromagnetism, energy conservation law has five different manifestation forms, that are power transport theorem (PTT), partial-structure-oriented work-energy theorem (PS-WET), entire-structure-oriented work-energy theorem (ES-WET), Poynting's theorem (PtT), and Lorentz's reciprocity theorem (LRT) forms; the energy source terms in the first four forms are formulated as input power operator (IPO), partial-structure-oriented driving power operator (PS-DPO), entire-structure-oriented driving power operator (ES-DPO), and Poynting's flux operator (PtFO); the DMs of wave-port-fed, lumped-port-driven, externally-incident-field-driven, and energy-dissipating/self-oscillating electromagnetic structures can be constructed by orthogonalizing IPO, PS-DPO, ES-DPO, and PtFO; LRT guarantees that the obtained DMs satisfy some useful Em-Hn orthogonality relations, where the Em and Hn represent the electric field of the m-th DM and the magnetic field of the n-th DM.