Analytical modelling of the current distribution in resistive loaded thin-wire antennas excited by a transient electric field

The analytical modelling of the excitation of a Wit and King loaded dipole by an oblique transient electric-plane wavefront has been revisited and extended in order to analyze in detail the physical phenomena involved in the time and space domains. The role of several components of the current induced along a dipole as a fraction of different parameters is discussed. The modelling developed herein allows its to consider a V-dipole. This study will allow its to consider, in a future work, the case of an assembly of dipoles in the space domain for. representing more complex antenna geometries. (c) 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.