Abstract:
An effective method for determining the surface charge density of ellipsoidal conductors in an external axisymmetric electric field is proposed. The method is based on solving a one-dimensional Fredholm integral equation of the first kind using the Galerkin method. Numerical experiments conducted to solve model problems illustrate a significant reduction in computational error using the proposed method compared to errors obtained in previous studies on this topic.
Key words:electric field, conductor, surface charge, Fredholm equation of the first kind, Galerkin method.
