ABSTRACT
Since a major goal in the study of ElectroMagnetic pickup (deterministic or statistical) by cables in an enclosure consists of understanding cable coupling, the authors now present a review of pickup and scattering by a single wire in free space or over a ground plane. In general, the wire-current solutions are separated into a homogeneous part and a particular or driven part. In this chaprter, the authors describe the development of statistical tools for evaluating field-induced currents on satellite wiring harnesses and similar cavity-enclosed systems that are too complex for deterministic techniques, such as FDTD, MoM, or finite elements, to have any real prospect of success. The scattered field is then reflected from the ground plane and used to reinforce the wire drive. This results in another scattered field that is then reflected from the ground plane and again used to drive the cable.
