On the suppression of asymmetric artifacts arising in an implementation of the thin-wire method of moments

The original version of the thin-wire frequency-domain moment-method program developed by J.H. Richmond (1974) has been modified to suppress the computation of nonphysical asymmetric fields. Richmond´s implementation uses piecewise sinusoidal expansion and testing functions, along with filamentary current approximations. The modified version, termed the bridge-current version, is described. The original program and the modified version are compared with each other and with simplified theory, where applicable, on the following symmetrical structures: a rectangular wire loop, a two-wire transmission line, and a log-periodic dipole antenna. The bridge-current version is shown to eliminate the computation of nonphysical asymmetric fields, to be essentially invariant with respect to variations in segmentation for the above-mentioned structures, and to produce results that compare well with simplified theories where applicable. It is noted that the bridge-current version is particularly advantageous for structures that include close-spaced parallel wires connected by short wire segments