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Arnold Sommerfeld defined the condition of radiation for a scalar field satisfying the Helmholtz equation as : "the sources must be sources, not sinks of energy. The energy which is radiated from the sources must scatter to infinity; no energy may be radiated from infinity into ... the field."〔A. Sommerfeld, ''Partial Differential Equations in Physics'', Academic Press, New York, New York, 1949.〕 Mathematically, consider the inhomogeneous Helmholtz equation : where is the dimension of the space, is a given function with compact support representing a bounded source of energy, and is a constant, called the ''wavenumber''. A solution to this equation is called ''radiating'' if it satisfies the Sommerfeld radiation condition : uniformly in all directions : (above, is the imaginary unit and is the Euclidean norm). Here, it is assumed that the time-harmonic field is If the time-harmonic field is instead one should replace with in the Sommerfeld radiation condition. The Sommerfeld radiation condition is used to solve uniquely the Helmholtz equation. For example, consider the problem of radiation due to a point source in three dimensions, so the function in the Helmholtz equation is where is the Dirac delta function. This problem has an infinite number of solutions, for example, any function of the form : where is a constant, and : Of all these solutions, only satisfies the Sommerfeld radiation condition and corresponds to a field radiating from The other solutions are unphysical. For example, can be interpreted as energy coming from infinity and sinking at ==References== 〔 * * "Eighty years of Sommerfeld’s radiation condition", Steven H. Schot, ''Historia Mathematica'' 19, #4 (November 1992), pp. 385-401, . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sommerfeld radiation condition」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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