Theory of inductive shielding

Abstract

A mathematical theory of low-frequency electromagnetic shielding is constructed on the basis that an appropriate set of boundary conditions can be derived to duplicate the effect of the shield's wall on the fields within the shield. Shields with electrically thin shells are considered in detail; mathematical methods that are best suited for computational purposes are presented for calculating the shielding effectiveness of such a shield of arbitrary shape. Shells with arbitrary electrical thickness are also treated, but in less detail, since the shielding problem involving this kind of shell is shown to be different from but no more general than the shielding problem involving electrically thin shells. Explicit results are given for shields of particular shape.