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- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Date: Friday, 21 Aug 1992 16:46:32 CDT
- From: <U09207@uicvm.uic.edu>
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- Newsgroups: sci.math.symbolic,uiuc.mathematica,
- Subject: Help on an integral
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- I am a relatively new Mathematica user. I will appreciate any comments and
- suggestions on the following integral I am trying to evaluate:
-
- / H
- |
- | ( j beta/ r1^2 + 1/r1^3) exp( -j beta r1) dz
- |
- / -H
- where r1=sqrt(z^2 + r^2 - 2 r z cos(theta)) and j=sqrt(-1).
- This is a typical integral found in electromagnetics and antennas.
- I tried to use Integrate[f,{z,-H,H}], but Mma responded with
- Integrate[...] where ... was the integrand with the substitutions for r1 and j.
- When I used NIntegrate[f,{z,-H,H}] and specified some typical values for
- the constants, I got a value for the integral. But I would like to have a
- closed form solution (or an approximate version). Does anyone have any
- suggestions on this? Is there some kind of specialized Package available
- for these type of problems.
- I am using Mma on a Sparc2.
-
- Thanks in advance.
- Vahe Caliskan (vahe@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu)
-