Variational principles and operator equations for electromagnetic waves in inhomogeneous media

DOI10.1016/0165-2125(84)90009-XzbMath0533.73092OpenAlexW1985550344MaRDI QIDQ789935

John R. Willis

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Wave Motion (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-2125(84)90009-x

zbMATH Keywords

inhomogeneous mediuminfinite bodyclass of boundary value problemsdual principleextension of complementary energy principleGreen's function kernelsvariational characterization of polarizations generated by electromagnetic wavesweak formulation of Maxwell equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic effects in solid mechanics (74F15) Electromagnetic theory (general) (78A25) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Operator partial differential equations (= PDEs on finite-dimensional spaces for abstract space valued functions) (35R20) Variational principles of physics (49S05)

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