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Electromagnetic (EM) scattering systems widely exist in EM engineering domain. For a certain objective scattering system, all of its working modes constitute a linear space, i.e. modal space. Characteristic mode theory (CMT) can effectively construct a basis of the space, i.e. characteristic modes (CMs), and the CMs only depend on the inherent physical properties of the objective system, such as the topological structure and the material parameter of the objective system. Thus, CMT is very valuable for analyzing and designing the inherent EM scattering characters of the objective system. This work finds out that integral equation (IE) is not the best framework for carrying CMT. This dissertation proposes a completely new framework for carrying CMT, i.e. work-energy principle (WEP) framework, and at the same time proposes a completely new method for constructing CMs, i.e. orthogonalizing driving power operator (DPO) method. In new WEP framework and based on new orthogonalizing DPO method, this work resolves 5 pairs of important unsolved problems existing in CMT domain.
This paper derives a finite-strain plate theory consistent with the principle of stationary three-dimensional (3-D) potential energy under general loadings with a third-order error. Staring from the 3-D nonlinear elasticity (with both geometrical and material nonlinearity) and by a series expansion, we deduce a vector plate equation with three unknowns, which exhibits the local force-balance structure. The success relies on using the 3-D field equations and bottom traction condition to derive exact recursion relations for the coefficients. Associated weak formulations are considered, leading to a 2-D virtual work principle. An alternative approach based on a 2-D truncated energy is also provided, which is less consistent than the first plate theory but has the advantage of the existence of a 2-D energy function. As an example, we consider the pure bending problem of a hyperelastic block. The comparison between the analytical plate solution and available exact one shows that the plate theory gives second-order correct results. Comparing with existing plate theories, it appears that the present one has a number of advantages, including the consistency, order of correctness, generality of the loadings, applicability to finite-strain problems and no involvement of unphysical quantities.
The physical pictures of eigen-mode theory (EMT) and the conventional characteristic mode theory (CMT) reveal a fact that: the EMT and CMT are the modal theories for electromagnetic wave-guiding and scattering (for details, please see the Appendices E, F, G and H) systems respectively, rather than for electromagnetic transceiving systems. This Postdoctoral Research Report is devoted to establishing a novel modal theory - decoupling mode theory (DMT) - for transceiving systems, and constructing the energy-decoupled modes (DMs) of objective transceiving system. This Postdoctoral Research Report is a companion volume of the authors Doctoral Dissertation Research on the Work-Energy Principle Based Characteristic Mode Theory for Scattering Systems (arXiv:1907.11787).
A unification of characteristic mode decomposition for all method-of-moment formulations of field integral equations describing free-space scattering is derived. The work is based on an algebraic link between impedance and transition matrices, the latter of which was used in early definitions of characteristic modes and is uniquely defined for all scattering scenarios. This also makes it possible to extend the known application domain of characteristic mode decomposition to any other frequency-domain solver capable of generating transition matrices, such as finite difference or finite element methods. The formulation of characteristic modes using a transition matrix allows for the decomposition of induced currents and scattered fields from arbitrarily shaped objects, providing high numerical dynamics and increased stability, removing the issue of spurious modes, offering good control of convergence, and significantly simplifying modal tracking. Algebraic properties of the transition matrix are utilized to show that characteristic mode decomposition of lossy objects fails to deliver orthogonal far fields. All aforementioned properties and steps are demonstrated on several numerical examples for both surface- and volume-based method-of-moment formulations.
We present a complete analytical derivation of the equations used for stationary and nonstationary wave systems regarding resonant sound transmission and reflection described by the phenomenological Coupled-Mode Theory. We calculate the propagating and coupling parameters used in Coupled-Mode Theory directly by utilizing the generalized eigenwave-eigenvalue problem from the Hamiltonian of the sound wave equations. This Hamiltonian formalization can be very useful since it has the ability to describe mathematically a broad range of acoustic wave phenomena. We demonstrate how to use this theory as a basis for perturbative analysis of more complex resonant scattering scenarios. In particular, we also form the effective Hamiltonian and coupled-mode parameters for the study of sound resonators with background moving media. Finally, we provide a comparison between Coupled-Mode theory and full-wave numerical examples, which validate the Hamiltonian approach as a relevant model to compute the scattering characteristics of waves by complex resonant systems.
For closed quantum systems driven away from equilibrium, work is often defined in terms of projective measurements of initial and final energies. This definition leads to statistical distributions of work that satisfy nonequilibrium work and fluctuation relations. While this two-point measurement definition of quantum work can be justified heuristically by appeal to the first law of thermodynamics, its relationship to the classical definition of work has not been carefully examined. In this paper we employ semiclassical methods, combined with numerical simulations of a driven quartic oscillator, to study the correspondence between classical and quantal definitions of work in systems with one degree of freedom. We find that a semiclassical work distribution, built from classical trajectories that connect the initial and final energies, provides an excellent approximation to the quantum work distribution when the trajectories are assigned suitable phases and are allowed to interfere. Neglecting the interferences between trajectories reduces the distribution to that of the corresponding classical process. Hence, in the semiclassical limit, the quantum work distribution converges to the classical distribution, decorated by a quantum interference pattern. We also derive the form of the quantum work distribution at the boundary between classically allowed and forbidden regions, where this distribution tunnels into the forbidden region. Our results clarify how the correspondence principle applies in the context of quantum and classical work distributions, and contribute to the understanding of work and nonequilibrium work relations in the quantum regime.