Transient behaviour of nonlinearly loaded wires in the presence of a dielectric half-space

The transient analysis of wires having a nonlinear load in the presence of a half-space is carried out directly in the time domain. The nonlinear wire problem is formulated by the time domain Hallen integral equation. The effect of a two-media configuration is taken into account via the reflection coefficient appearing within the integral equation kernel. The resulting integral equation is solved by the space-time Galerkin-Bubnov boundary integral equation method (GB-BIEM). Some illustrative numerical results are presented.