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Asymptotic And Numerical Analysis Of Time-Dependent Wave Propagation In Dispersive Dielectric Media That Exhibit Fractional Relaxation, Matthew Frank Causley
Asymptotic And Numerical Analysis Of Time-Dependent Wave Propagation In Dispersive Dielectric Media That Exhibit Fractional Relaxation, Matthew Frank Causley
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This dissertation addresses electromagnetic pulse propagation through anomalously dispersive dielectric media. The Havriliak-Negami (H-N) and Cole-Cole (C-C) models capture the non-exponential nature of such dielectric relaxation phenomena, which is manifest in a variety of dispersive dielectric media. In the C-C model, the dielectric polarization is coupled to the time-dependent Maxwell's equations by a fractional differential equation involving the electric field. In the H-N case, a more general pseudo-fractional differential operator describes the polarization.
The development and analysis of a robust method for implementing such models is presented, with an emphasis on algorithmic efficiency. Separate numerical schemes are presented for C-C …