Aperture Excitation of a Wire in a Rectangular Cavity

The problem of determining the currents excited on a wire enclosed within a rectangular cavity is considered. The wire and cavity interior are excited by electromagnetic sources exterior to the cavity which couple to the cavity interior through a small aperture in the cavity wall. It is assumed that the wire is thin, straight, and oriented perpendicular to one of the cavity walls. An integral equation is formulated for the problem in the frequency domain using equivalent dipole moments to approximate the effects of the aperture. This integral equation is then solved numerically by the method of moments. The dyadic Green's function for this problem are difficult to compute numerically; consequently, extensive numerical analysis is necessary to render the solution tractable. SampIe numerical results are presented for representative configurations of cavity, wire, and aperture.