2021-03-19
Capacitance Matrix Revisited
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Progress In Electromagnetics Research B, Vol. 92, 1-18, 2021
Abstract
The capacitance matrix relates potentials and charges on a system of conductors. We review and rigorously generalize its properties, block-diagonal structure and inequalities, deduced from the geometry of system of conductors and analytic properties of the permittivity tensor. Furthermore, we discuss alternative choices of regularization of the capacitance matrix, which allow us to find the charge exchanged between the conductors having been brought to an equal potential. Finally, we discuss the tacit approximations used in standard treatments of the electric circuits, demonstrating how the formulae for the capacitance of capacitors connected in parallel and series may be recovered from the capacitance matrix.
Citation
Ivica Smolić, and Bruno Klajn, "Capacitance Matrix Revisited," Progress In Electromagnetics Research B, Vol. 92, 1-18, 2021.
doi:10.2528/PIERB21011501
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