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Direct solutions of Maxwell’s equations (2.4) to (2.7) are very difficult for all but the simplest configurations. One method is to decouple E and B to obtain the wave equations (2.24) and (2.25). In these equations the E and B fields are independent; even if we found an appropriate solution for the E field in a given situation, there still remains the problem of how to determine the appropriate B field solution so that both fulfill Maxwell’s equations.
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Rohlfs, K., Wilson, T.L. (2004). Fundamentals of Antenna Theory. In: Tools of Radio Astronomy. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05394-2_5
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