Abstract

Analytic techniques describing the electromagnet behavior, even of simple straight fibers of finite conductivity, have been developed only recently. The electromagnetic modeling of fiber-like particles formed (for example) in the process of burning hydrocarbons, i.e. soot, is very difficult. Although several analytic and numeric techniques are available, good experimental analogs have been lacking and the few that do exist are restricted to scattering only.

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