IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY, VOL. 40, NO. 1, FEBRUARY 1998 19 Ray Analysis of Electromagnetic Field Build-Up and Quality Factor of Electrically Large Shielded Enclosures Do-Hoon Kwon, Student Member, IEEE, Robert J. Burkholder, Senior Member, IEEE, and Prabhakar H. Pathak, Fellow, IEEE Abstract— A high-frequency asymptotic ray solution is investigated for predicting the electromagnetic field build up and steady-state parameters of shielded enclosures or cavities, which are large with respect to wavelength. It is found that the ray solution can deterministically predict the early-time field build up after the source is switched on, but cannot predict the steadystate fields of high- enclosures because of the intractably large number of ray reflections required for convergence. However, it factor may be predicted is demonstrated that the steady-state from the early-time energy density build up at a point by factor is coherently summing the power in each ray. The obtained via its relationship to the cavity time constant, which may be extracted from the early-time energy density curve. A clear indication of polarization diversity throughout the enclosure may also be obtained by plotting the polarization components of the early-time fields and energy density build up at different points. The advantage of the ray method is that it can be used to treat large closed cavities of relatively arbitrary shape. Q Q Q Index Terms—Arbitrary geometry, cavity, high frequency, ray analysis, shielded enclosure. Fig. 1. Reverberating cavity of arbitrary shape with metallic wall having conductivity . The cavity has a transmitter and a mechanical mode stirrer inside. I. INTRODUCTION T HE electromagnetic (EM) analysis of electrically large closed cavities is important for understanding the field build-up and steady-state behavior of high- shielded enclosures and reverberation chambers. The procedure presented here has been specifically applied to a completely enclosed high- chamber, although the same approach could be used in the analysis of other electrically large closed or shielded EM environments, such as below decks of a ship or inside aircraft cabins. The EM reverberation chamber has become a useful tool for testing EM shielding effectiveness of electronic enclosures and for emissions measurements and other EM interference/compatibility applications [1], [2]. Fig. 1 shows an electrically large closed cavity. The cavity has metallic walls with very high conductivity and is excited by a transmitting antenna or aperture. (For emissions testing the antenna or aperture would receive radiation from an active test object in the chamber.) Since very little power is dissipated when Manuscript received March 17, 1997; revised November 7, 1997. This work was supported by the Joint Services Electronics Program, Grant N00014-89J-1007. The authors are with the ElectroScience Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43212 USA. Publisher Item Identifier S 0018-9375(98)01715-3. a wave reflects from the highly conducting walls, the field in the cavity can build up to a very large value a short time after a steady-state source is turned on. For the case of the reverberation chamber, it is desired that the field inside be uniformly distributed in amplitude, polarization, and -space spectral content so that a device under test is exposed to a highly diverse electromagnetic environment. As shown in Fig. 1, a mechanical “mode stirrer” is sometimes placed so that it can stir up the steady-state fields and obtain time-averaged uniformity for the interior fields as it rotates [3]. Alternatively, “frequency stirring” may be used for producing the same effect [4]. The analysis described here is applied to a large static chamber, although it may be easily extended to the analysis of time-varying reverberation chambers. At microwave frequencies room-size cavities are very large with respect to wavelength, so numerical analysis of the interior fields becomes intractable. For these cases, most theoretical approaches for predicting cavity characteristics have been based on cavity modal analysis for uniform geometries [5], [6] or statistical methods which assume at the outset that the average power density is uniform throughout the cavity [7]–[9]. An alternative high-frequency asymptotic ray-based 0018–9375/98$10.00 1998 IEEE 20 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY, VOL. 40, NO. 1, FEBRUARY 1998 approach is presented here for analyzing electrically large cavities of relatively arbitrary configuration. To within the accuracy of the high-frequency asymptotic approximation, this method can deterministically predict the fields at any point in the cavity during the early part of the transient field build-up after the source is turned on. The steady-state fields cannot be directly computed for realistic high- chambers using this method because the rays would have to be tracked through thousands of reflections from the chamber walls to reach a convergent solution. However, a method is presented for predicting the steady-state behavior from the early-time energy density build-up, which allows the cavity time constant to be extracted, and from that the cavity quality factor may be computed. Furthermore, the early-time ray solution allows one to plot the individual polarization components at different points throughout the cavity in order to visualize the polarization diversity. The ray approach presented here is intended to be used as a diagnostic tool for evaluating the performance of shielded enclosure and test chamber designs. In the following, it is assumed that the primary loss mechanism in a well-designed high- enclosure such as a reverberation chamber is due to the finite conductivity of the walls. Power loss due to signal feedback into the source antenna may also be computed using the method presented here, but it has been shown that this is much less significant than the wall loss at microwave frequencies [9]. In Section II, the high-frequency ray method is described and it is demonstrated with numerical results for a static rectangular chamber in Section III. Section IV introduces the approach for calculating from the early-time behavior and compares the results with the formulas derived in [8]. Conclusions and suggestions for further extensions of the method are discussed in Section V. An harmonic time convention is assumed and suppressed for the frequency-domain fields throughout. The medium filling the cavity is free-space with impedance and wavenumber where is the steady-state wavelength. II. HIGH-FREQUENCY DESCRIPTION OF CAVITY FIELDS In the high-frequency asymptotic sense, the field at a point inside a cavity can be described as a superposition of ray fields originating from the transmitting antenna. Since the fields associated with the multiple-reflection of rays are dominant compared with the fields associated with the effects of diffraction (assuming the mode stirrer is electrically large), one can represent the cavity fields by the geometrical optics (GO) approximation [10], i.e., by the sum of the fields of the direct ray and multiply-reflected rays. Unlike the cavity mode expansion, which has been conventionally used for PEC cavities of canonical shapes [11], [12] the ray method can be applied to relatively arbitrarily shaped cavities and it can also very easily take into account the effect of slight wall loss. The latter is achieved by incorporating the finite conductivity into the reflection coefficients associated with high-frequency ray reflections [13]. Thus, inside a general cavity the ray description of the electric field at an observation point can m m+1 and direct and mul- Fig. 2. Two consecutive reflection points Q tiple-bounce rays contributing at an observer. ;Q be written as (1) is the th ray originating from the transmitting where antenna and arriving at after experiencing a particular number of reflections along its unique ray path to . Several rays contributing to the total field at an observer are depicted in Fig. 2. Note that (1) is in general an infinite sum for a closed cavity and it must be truncated for computational purposes as discussed later. Each individual ray field can be found by ray tracing according to the laws of GO. The complete path a particular ray goes through needs to be found and if a ray experiences multiple reflections from the walls, the reflection points and the sequential order of reflections should also be determined. One can then march along the ray path and compute the field along the ray throughout a sequence of reflections. After reflections, the th ray field at the point is given in general by (2) denotes the total ray path length from the source to where and is the field incident at the first reflection point , but with its phase propagation to extracted (and absorbed into ). At each reflection point , the incident ray field is decomposed into two components transverse to the ray propagation direction which are parallel and perpendicular to the plane of incidence at . The incident field may then be written as (3) where the parallel and perpendicular unit vectors are denoted and . is in the plane of incidence and by is perpendicular to it while both of these unit vectors are KWON et al.: EM FIELD BUILD-UP AND QUALITY OF ELECTRICALLY LARGE SHIELDED ENCLOSURES 21 denotes the geometrical optics spatial divergence factor which accounts for the amplitude variation of the ray field. For an electrically small transmitting antenna and planar walls, the divergence factor is given by (9) Fig. 3. Reflection coefficients 0? and 0k is the distance from the transmitter to and where denotes the total path length of the th ray from all the way back to the transmitting antenna. For curved walls, the divergence factor may be computed using the method presented in [10] and [14]. Finally, it is noted that (2) is a product of matrix multiplications so the order of the multiplications is important and should be interpreted as . The magnitude of the plane wave reflection coefficients and are plotted in Fig. 3 as a function of incidence for three highly conducting nonmagnetic metallic angle surfaces. Note that and are very close to unity for high as expected, indicating that very little energy is absorbed at each reflection. (It is noted that both reflection coefficients and go to one in magnitude for grazing , although the rise of occurs incidence, i.e., as to be visible on the plot scale. This too close to behavior of reflection coefficients for plane wave incidence on planar interfaces is well documented as, for example, in [15].) Fig. 3 also shows the aforementioned transverse unit vectors associated with the incident , and the reflected , fields. versus incidence angle i . transverse to the propagation direction of the incident field. Snell’s law of reflection applies, which states that the reflected ray lies in the plane of incidence and the angle of reflection is equal to the angle of incidence [10]. is the reflection matrix at , which relates the reflected field components to the incident components and is defined by (4) where given by and are plane wave reflection coefficients (5) (6) (7) for a highly conductive nonmagnetic metallic surface. The incidence angle is defined in Fig. 3. accounts for the coordinate transformation from and to and and is defined by (8) III. RAY FIELDS IN A RECTANGULAR CAVITY WITH MONOPOLE EXCITATION Consider a rectangular cavity with a small monopole antenna radiating on the bottom surface, as shown in Fig. 4. For this geometry, finding ray paths and reflection points is greatly facilitated by employing image theory [11]. One can remove the walls and place image sources of the monopole at appropriate locations in space. Then, the field value at any observation point is determined by summing up the contributions from the original source and all the image sources. Some of the image sources and rays are illustrated in Fig. 5. For more complicated chamber geometries, which may also have a mode stirrer present, a ray shooting approach [13], [16] is recommended to find the ray paths and reflection points. A static rectangular chamber with a simple monopole excitation is chosen for the results presented here to illustrate the field build-up as more and more image rays add to the field at the observation point. The current on the original monopole antenna is determined from the method of moments [17] using the electric field integral equation for a monopole on a lossy ground plane. The excitation of the antenna is a magnetic frill generator, modeling a coaxial probe opening into the cavity. Once the current on the monopole is found in the presence of a lossy ground plane of infinite extent, image theory gives the corresponding currents on all the image sources. It is noted that (2) assumes the observation point in the cavity is in the far zone of the 22 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY, VOL. 40, NO. 1, FEBRUARY 1998 with the size of the cavity. Finally, it is noted that the moment method analysis of the monopole can also be used to compute received fields which may be generated by an active or passive test object and also be caused by feedback from the cavity. Now assume that the input antenna is excited by a step function modulated signal operating at the frequency (radian frequency ). The time domain electric field at point may then be written as (10) is the frequency response of the stepped where input source given by (11) From (2), may be written as (12) where (13) Fig. 4. A rectangular cavity with a monopole antenna. The conductivity of the wall is . is band limited around and we can Since safely assume that is a slowly varying function of (where ) around , (10) is well approximated by (14) where (15) denotes the total ray path length from to the th image source and is the unit step function that accounts for the delayed time of arrival of each ray. is the speed of light in free-space with permittivity and permeability . Also, with being the applied frequency. The envelope of is given in the high-frequency limit by (16) Fig. 5. Image sources and rays contributing at P. source antenna. While small monopoles easily satisfy this requirement, it is possible that some antennas may be too large to employ ray tracing in the simplified format of (2). In this case, a generalized ray expansion may used instead [14]; however, it is expected that most antennas employed in practice as sources of EM waves would be small compared Fig. 6 shows the envelope of the early time fields at a point obtained via (16) for three values of conductivity , , and S/m (Siemens per meter). The chamber is a 1.75m cube and the frequency of the step-modulated signal is 10 GHz. Along with the time axis, the number of included images and the maximum number of ray reflections are also shown in Fig. 6. Since the image sources are evenly placed in space, the number of images contributing to (16) at time is KWON et al.: EM FIELD BUILD-UP AND QUALITY OF ELECTRICALLY LARGE SHIELDED ENCLOSURES 23 Fig. 6. The envelope of early time fields versus time: The chamber is a cube with a = b = c = 1:75 m and the modulation frequency is 10 GHz. The observation point P is at (x; y; z ) = (0:6; 0:7; 0:8). Fig. 7. Envelope function of e(P; t) in each coordinate direction: the observation point P is at (x; y; z ) = (0:6; 0:7; 0:8). The chamber is a cube with a = b = c = 1:75 m, = 106 S/m, and the modulation frequency is 10 GHz. TABLE I COMPARISON OF LOSS PER REFLECTION, NUMBER OF IMAGES AND NUMBER OF REFLECTIONS REQUIRED FOR STEADY-STATE CONVERGENCE AND SETTLE TIMES FOR FIVE VALUES OF : THE SETTLE TIMES ARE BASED ON A CUBIC CHAMBER OF SIDE 1.75 M AND THE NUMBER OF IMAGES AND REFLECTIONS ARE BASED ON (17) magnitude. The minimum number of reflections required for convergence may then be calculated approximately from roughly where is the volume of the chamber. The number of reflections denotes the maximum number of by time . The reflections any ray goes through to reach jagged appearance of the field plots is due to the ideal step input being used here; in reality, the limited bandwidth of the source antenna and transmission line feed would cause the source to have a less abrupt turn on and provide small scale smoothing of the field plots without affecting the general shape of the curves. S/m, As Fig. 6 illustrates, in the lossiest case with the field reaches steady-state relatively early. This is because have undergone a the rays that take a long time to reach large number of attenuating reflections and become too weak to contribute significantly to the total field. As expected, it S/m to settle takes a longer time for the field with down because there is less attenuation per reflection. For the S/m, which corresponds to a more realistic case of good metallic conductor, convergence could not be reached within a reasonable amount of computer time. It was observed computationally that the field reaches its steady-state value after a time when all the subsequent rays are attenuated by reflections to less than 6/10 of their free-space (17) and are given in Table I for each along with the corresponding number of images and the time to convergence (settle time). The table indicates that a realistic chamber ( S/m) requires an intractably large number of images and reflections to be computed for convergence. Fig. 7 shows the envelope functions in each coordinate direction as a function of time for the S/m case of Fig. 6. Plotting these field components at several different locations allows one to visualize the polarization diversity throughout the chamber. IV. SEMIDETERMINISTIC PREDICTION OF QUALITY FACTOR The most commonly used parameter for characterizing closed cavities such as reverberation chambers is the quality factor . As with other types of resonant systems, the of a closed cavity will tell how effective the cavity is in building up and storing energy. With a very large , the field in the chamber can build up to a very large value even with small input power. This is because upon turning on the excitation, the energy in the cavity will build up to a steady-state level where the total input power is exactly compensated by the dissipated power from all the loss mechanisms combined. The classical definition of for a single frequency of operation at steady state is given by (18) is the total stored energy and is dissipated where power. A simple formula for the of a closed cavity was obtained in [8] by treating the cavity field as a uniformly 24 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY, VOL. 40, NO. 1, FEBRUARY 1998 Fig. 8. Coherent energy density build-up for five values of : a = sum of ray power and exponential curve fit overlay each other. b = distributed spectrum of plane waves and calculating average power dissipation statistically, arriving at c = 1:75 m. Observation pointis at (x; y; z ) = (0:6; 0:7; 0:8). Coherent if one sums the power in the rays using magnitude only, the energy density build-up at a point may be written as (19) (22) where is the relative permeability of the cavity wall, is the volume, and is the inner surface area of the cavity. A time constant was suggested in [9] defined by which is expected to have a behavior similar to (21). This function is plotted in Fig. 8 for various cases of values. Also plotted for each is a best curve-fit of the function (20) (23) Skin depth which determines the exponential decay rate of the stored energy when the source is suddenly turned off. Since the same applies to the case of energy build-up when the source is suddenly turned on, it can be written that (21) is the steady-state energy. where It is of interest to extract numerically using the ray method presented here. However, to extract directly using (21), one would have to compute the total stored energy as a function of time, which would require integrating the field over the entire volume of the chamber at each time step. Supposing that the numerical sampling is on the order of a fraction of a wavelength, a numerical integration scheme becomes impractical for electrically large cavities. Therefore, the energy build-up at a single point or a small set of sample points is investigated instead. Sampling a small set of points randomly distributed throughout the chamber should indicate whether the energy density build-up at a point has a form similar to the total energy build-up in the cavity. As Figs. 6 and 7 show, there is no simple exponential buildup of the fields at a point because phase interference between the various rays creates oscillations in the curves. However, where the time delay has been introduced because unlike , stays at zero until the first ray arrives at . However, these two curves overlay each other to within graphical resolution [except for the small fluctuations near zero caused by the ideal step function in (22)], which supports the hypothesis that the point-wise energy density build-up defined by (22) has the same functional behavior as the total energy build-up in the rectangular chamber. It remains to be seen if the time constant which gives the best numerical curve-fit in (23) agrees with the time constant in (21). Using (20) to define the -factor in terms of the curvefit time constant in (23), Table II lists for the five cases of values and compares it with the statistical formula of (19). The agreement is very good between these two very different approaches. The physical explanation of this result is that the large set of rays involved in the evaluation of (16) and (22) experience reflections nearly everywhere on the chamber walls so that the field at any point is directly influenced by the wall loss and chamber geometry. For the static rectangular chamber considered here, it has been found that the curves of Fig. 8 are nearly independent of the chosen point of observation in the chamber. It is known that for a low-loss cavity, the steady-state field distribution due to a single frequency excitation is highly oscillatory as KWON et al.: EM FIELD BUILD-UP AND QUALITY OF ELECTRICALLY LARGE SHIELDED ENCLOSURES TABLE II QUALITY FACTOR Q: A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE STATISTICAL METHOD AND THE CURVE FIT. THE FREQUENCY IS 10 GHz 25 by ray methods, but it is not practical to compute the steadystate fields of high- cavities because rays typically need to be tracked through thousands of reflections to reach a convergent solution. However, the ray solution appears to contain sufficient information to predict the steady-state parameters and pointwise from the early-time coherent energy density curve well before reaching convergence. Furthermore, plotting the individual polarization components of the early-time fields and energy density build-up serve as excellent indicators of the polarization diversity at different points throughout the cavity. One of the main advantages of the ray method is that it can be applied to relatively arbitrarily shaped cavity geometries. It is, therefore, of further interest to apply the ray method to more complex time-varying chamber geometries, which may contain a movable mode stirrer and/or a test object in the target zone, which will, of course, perturb the chamber fields. This preliminary study of the static rectangular chamber has shown that the ray method can provide considerable insight into the operating characteristics of realistic shielded enclosure and test chamber designs without relying on measurements or statistical analysis. ACKNOWLEDGMENT The authors would like to thank Dr. D. A. Hill of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, for his technical assistance. REFERENCES Fig. 9. Coherent energy density build-up for each polarization component of the = 106 (S/m) case: Observation point is at (x; y; z ) = (0:6; 0:7; 0:8). Coherent sum of ray power and exponential curve fit overlay each other. a function of location. This oscillatory behavior is caused by constructive and destructive phase interference among rays. However, once the phase information is taken out as in (22) so that the power of individual rays are summed to form a monotonically increasing function with time, (22) is expected to be a slowly varying function of position. More complex cavity geometries are expected to show more spatial variation in energy density than the simple rectangular cavity. Fig. 9 shows the energy density curves for each polarization component of the S/m case. They also have the form of (23) and are expected to have similar time constants. (However, it has been found that the time constant for the cavity is most accurately computed using total field values.) These curves will change for different observation points and, therefore, may be used to characterize the polarization diversity throughout the cavity more clearly than the fluctuating field plots of Fig. 7. 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Do-Hoon Kwon (S’94) was born in Seoul, Korea. He received the B.S. degree from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea, in 1994, and the M.S. degree from The Ohio State University, Columbus, in 1995. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree at The Ohio State University. Since April 1994, he has been a Graduate Research Associate with the ElectroScience Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State University. His main research interests are high-frequency electromagnetic scattering and computational electromagnetics. Robert J. Burkholder (S’85–M’89–SM’97) received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from The Ohio State University, Columbus, in 1984, 1985, and 1989, respectively. From 1989 to 1994, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at The Ohio State University ElectroScience Laboratory, where he is currently a Senior Research Associate. His research specialties are high-frequency asymptotic techniques and their hybrid combination with numerical techniques for solving electromagnetic radiation and scattering problems. He has contributed extensively to the electromagnetic analysis of large cavities (such as jet inlets/exhausts) and is currently working on the more general problem of antenna radiation, propagation, and coupling in complex multibounce environments. Dr. Burkholder is currently serving as Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION and is Chairman of the Columbus Joint Chapter of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation and Microwave Theory and Techniques Societies. He is also a full member of URSI Commission B, and a member of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES). Prabhakar H. Pathak (M’76–SM’81–F’86) received the B.Sc. degree in physics from the University of Bombay, India, in 1962, the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, in 1965, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from The Ohio State University, Columbus, in 1970 and 1973, respectively. He has been with The Ohio State University since 1973 and is currently a Professor there. He has participated in invited lectures and several short courses on the uniform geometrical theory of diffraction and other highfrequency methods, both in the United States and abroad. He has authored and co-authored chapters on the subject of high-frequency diffraction for five books. Currently, he is serving as a member of the editorial board of the International Series of Monographs on Advanced Electromagnetics (Tokyo, Japan: Sci. House). He has dealt primarily with the development of uniform asymptotic solutions that improve and extend the geometrical theory of diffraction solutions for solving antenna and scattering problems associated with complex structures, such as aircraft and spacecraft. In addition, he has been involved with the development of efficient hybrid methods of analysis for reflector and microstrip-type antennas and, more recently, for dealing with electromagnetic wave propagation in the presence of complex radiating structures such as those involved in shipboard and urban environments. His work also includes the areas of geometrical theory of diffraction and asymptotic methods and the analytical inversion of the solutions obtained therefrom into the time domain to arrive at a progressing wave picture for transient radiation and scattering and he is involved with the analysis of electromagnetic penetration into and scattering by deep as well as shallow open-ended cavities and the development of Gaussian beam techniques for antennas and other applications. His research interests include electromagnetic theory, mathematical methods, antennas, and scattering. Dr. Pathak is a member of Sigma Xi and a member of the U.S. Commission B of URSI. He was named an IEEE AP-S Distinguished Lecturer for a threeyear term beginning in 1991. He is a former Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION.