Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.24138/jcomss.v3i1.265
A Comparative Study on the Induced Current Density in Humans Exposed to ELF Electric Fields
Vitantonio Amoruso
; Politecnico di Bari, Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica, Bari, Italy
Giovanna Calò
; Politecnico di Bari, Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica, Bari, Italy
Francesco Lattarulo
; Politecnico di Bari, Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica ed Elettronica, Bari, Italy
Dragan Poljak
orcid.org/0000-0003-1205-4842
; University of Split, Department of Electronics, Split, Croatia
Andres Peratta
; Wessex Institute of Technology, UK
Cristina Gonzalez
; Wessex Institute of Technology, UK
Abstract
A comparison between two theoretical methods, recently adopted for evaluating induced currents in a human body, is here presented. In both cases, a vertical ELF electric field is assumed for the coupling to a standard human subject. Specifically, the diakoptic method (DM), applied to a homogeneous multi-sphere model of man with low partitioning degree, and the Boundary Element Method (BEM), applied to a non-homogeneous model with high partitioning degree, have been selected. The analytical and numerical formulations, respectively distinctive of the above methods, are carefully described and a number of data are reported and commented upon.
Keywords
Boundary Element Method; diakoptic method; ELF human exposure; induced currents
Hrčak ID:
180572
URI
Publication date:
26.3.2007.
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