Solution to the interconnected wire-scatterer problem

A new method for treating the interconnections of arbitrarily located straight thin wires irradiated by a linearlypolarised plane wave is presented. The resulting Pocklington´s integral equation is solved by the Bubnov-Galerkin projective method. The current distribution along the wires is approximated by polynomials with complex coefficients. This formulation is valid for wires forming any angle, with special provision made for the collinear case. Also, a new formulation for finding the self and mutual impedances of the wire configuration has been obtained. Results show excellent agreement with those of other methods.