ABSTRACT
Surface charge simulation method (SCSM) is aimed to improve the charge simulation method (CSM) technique, dealing with surface distributed charges instead of discrete ones, as adopted in the classical formulation. In CSM, the discrete fictitious charges are so placed and their magnitudes are so determined that one of the equipotential will become identical to the electrode boundary of given potential and at the same time no singularity appears in the solution methodology. Similar to CSM, SCSM also requires that at any one of these surface nodes, the potential resulting from superposition of effects all the surface charge elements is equal to the known electrode potential. In order to achieve good accuracy in SCSM, it is imperative that the integrations are carried out with high accuracy. It has been noted by the researchers that numerical integration by Gauss–Legendre Quadrature rule provides excellent accuracy.
