scholarly journals PROPAGATION OF TRANSIENT ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES IN A LOSSY MAGNETOPLASMA HALF-SPACE WITH ARBITRARILY-ORIENTED MAGNETIC FIELD

1996 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-101
Author(s):  
M. Omid ◽  
M. Hayakawa
Geophysics ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 51 (11) ◽  
pp. 2117-2130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian M. Gunderson ◽  
Gregory A. Newman ◽  
Gerald W. Hohmann

When the current in a grounded wire is terminated abruptly, currents immediately flow in the Earth to preserve the magnetic field. Initially the current is concentrated near the wire, with a broad zone of return currents below. The electric field maximum broadens and moves downward with time. Currents are channeled into a conductive three‐dimensional body, resulting in anomalous magnetic fields. At early times, when the return currents are channeled into the body, the vertical magnetic field is less than the half‐space field on the far side of the body but is greater than the half‐space field between the source and the body. Later the current in the body reverses; the vertical field is enhanced on the far side of the body and decreased between the source and the body. The horizontal magnetic field has a well‐defined maximum directly over the body at late times, and is a better indicator of the position of the body. The vertical magnetic field and its time derivative change sign with time at receiver locations near the source if a three‐dimensional body is present. These sign reversals present serious problems for one‐dimensional inversion, because decay curves for a layered earth do not change sign. At positions away from the source, the decay curves exhibit no sign reversals—only decreases and enhancements relative to one‐dimensional decay curves. In such cases one‐dimensional inversions may provide useful information, but they are likely to result in fictitious layers and erroneous interpretations.


Geophysics ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 54 (5) ◽  
pp. 598-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory A. Newman ◽  
Walter L. Anderson ◽  
Gerald W. Hohmann

Transient electromagnetic (TEM) borehole responses of 3-D vertical and horizontal tabular bodies in a half‐space are calculated to assess the effect of a conductive host. The transmitter is a large loop at the surface of the earth, and the receiver measures the time derivative of the vertical magnetic field. When the host is conductive (100 Ω ⋅ m), the borehole response is due mainly to current channeled through the body. The observed magnetic‐field response can be visualized as due to galvanic currents that pass through the conductor and return in the half‐space. When the host resistivity is increased, the magnetic field of the conductor is influenced more by vortex currents that flow in closed loops inside the conductor. For a moderately resistive host (1000 Ω ⋅ m), the magnetic field of the body is caused by both vortex and galvanic currents. The galvanic response is observed at early times, followed by the vortex response at later times if the body is well coupled to the transmitter. If the host is very resistive, the galvanic response vanishes; and the response of the conductor is caused only by vortex currents. The shapes of the borehole profiles change considerably with changes in the host resistivity because vortex and galvanic current distributions are very different. When only the vortex response is observed, it is easy to distinguish vertical and horizontal conductors. However, in a conductive host where the galvanic response is dominant, it is difficult to interpret the geometry of the body; only the approximate location of the body can be determined easily. For a horizontal conductor and a single transmitting loop, only the galvanic response enables one to determine whether the conductor is between the transmitter and the borehole or beyond the borehole. A field example shows behavior similar to that of our theoretical results.


Geophysics ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 50 (12) ◽  
pp. 2849-2861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jopie I. Adhidjaja ◽  
Gerald W. Hohmann ◽  
Michael L. Oristaglio

The time‐domain electromagnetic (TEM) modeling method of Oristaglio and Hohmann is reformulated here in terms of the secondary field. This finite‐difference method gives a direct, explicit time‐domain solution for a two‐dimensional body in a conductive earth by advancing the field in time with DuFort‐Frankel time‐differencing. As a result, solving for the secondary field, defined as the difference between the total field and field of a half‐space, is not only more efficient but is also simpler and eliminates several problems inherent in the solution for the total field. For example, because the secondary field varies slowly both in space and time, it can be modeled on a coarse grid with large time steps. In addition, for a simple body the field is local; therefore, because the field can be assumed to satisfy a simple boundary condition in the earth computation is greatly simplified. Our tests show that for the same accuracy, the secondary‐field solution is roughly five times faster than the total‐field solution. We compute and analyze the magnetic field impulse response for a suite of models, most of which consist of a thin body embedded in a conductive half‐space—with or without overburden. The results indicate the conductive half‐space will both delay and attenuate the response of the body and even obscure it if the conductivity contrast is small. The results also suggest that the conductive host can alter the decay rate of the response of the body from its free‐space counterpart. Our results for multiple bodies illustrate the importance of early‐time measurements to obtain resolution, particularly for measurements of the horizontal magnetic field. The vertical magnetic field, however, can be used to infer the dip direction of a dipping body by studying the migration of the crossover. The results for models which include overburden show that the effect of a conductive overburden, in addition to the half‐space effect, is to delay the response of the body, because the primary current initially tends to concentrate and slowly diffuse through the overburden, and does not reach the body until later time. This effect also complicates the early‐times profiles, becoming more severe as the conductivity of the overburden is increased.


Geophysics ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 48 (6) ◽  
pp. 790-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. P. Raiche

In a recent paper, Lee (1981) developed an asymptotic formula for the coincident loop transient electromagnetic (TEM) response of a polarizable half‐space having a Cole‐Cole impedance. By using parameters corresponding to three different mineral deposits, Lee showed that negative transients would be obtained for delay times of 0.4 to 1.1 msec. The method developed by Knight and Raiche (1982) to calculate the transient response of layered earths was used to check these results for three reasons.


The influence of the earth’s magnetic field on the propagation of wireless waves in the ionosphere has stimulated interest in the problem of the propagation of electromagnetic waves through a non-isotropic medium which is stratified in planes. Although the differential equations of such a medium have been elegantly deduced by Hartree,f it appears that no solution of them has yet been published for a medium which is both non-isotropic and non-homogeneous. Thus the work of Gans and Hartree dealt only with a stratified isotropic medium, while in the mathematical theory of crystal-optics the non-isotropic medium is always assumed to be homogeneous. In the same way Appleton’s magneto-ionic theory of propagation in an ionized medium under the influence of a magnetic field is confined to consideration of the “ characteristic ”waves which can be propagated through a homogeneous medium without change of form. In applying to stratified non-isotropic media these investigations concerning homogeneous non-isotropic media difficulty arises from the fact that the polarizations of the characteristic waves in general vary with the constitution of the medium, and it is not at all obvious that there exist waves which are propagated independently through the stratified medium and which are approximately characteristic at each stratum. The existence of such waves has usually been taken for granted, although for the ionosphere doubt has been cast upon this assumption by Appleton and Naismith, who suggest that we might “ expect the components ( i. e ., characteristic waves) to be continually splitting and resplitting”, even if the increase of electron density “ takes place slowly with increase of height”. It is clear that, until the existence of independently propagated approximately characteristic waves has been established, at any rate for a slowly-varying non-isotropic medium, no mathematical justification exists for applying Appleton's magnetoionic theory to the ionosphere. It is with the provision of this justification that we are primarily concerned in the present paper. This problem has been previously considered by Försterling and Lassen,f but we feel that their work does not carry conviction because they did not base their calculations on the differential equations for a non-homo-geneous medium, and were apparently unable to deal with the general case in which the characteristic polarizations vary with the constitution of the medium.


Author(s):  
A. E. Abouelregal ◽  
Hijaz Ahmad ◽  
S. K. Elagan ◽  
Nawal A. Alshehri

This paper focuses on studying thermal, elastic and coupled plasma waves, in the sense of a photo-thermal process transport within an infinite semiconductor medium. In order to study photo-thermal interactions in two-dimensional semiconducting materials, a new mathematical model based on the Moore–Gibson–Thompson equation (MGTE) is implemented. The MGTE model involving the Green–Naghdi model of type III as well as the heat transport equation proposed by Lord and Shulman. We consider the semi-conductor half-space is rotated at a uniform angular speed and magnetized. The analysis of the distribution of thermophysical fields has been extracted by a normal mode method, represented graphically and discussed. The results predicted by the new and improved model have been compared with the generalized and classic ones. In addition, all field quantities have been examined for effects of rotation, a lifetime of the photo-generated, and the applied magnetic field.


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