Symbolic derivation and numeric computation of dyadic Green´s functions using Mathematica

This paper presents a mathematical-software functional package that is capable of performing symbolic derivation and numeric computation of dyadic Green´s functions for certain multilayered structures: a planar stratified multilayered medium, a spherical multilayered medium, a cylindrical multilayered medium, and a conducting rectangular waveguide with a multilayered dielectric load. The algorithms of this software package are based on the eigenfunction-expansion method. Using Mathematica/sup TM/, two packages were written to fulfill the aforementioned objectives. Upon completion of the software development, dyadic Green´s functions for three-layered media were generated. A comparison of these outputs with published results showed good agreement. This demonstrated the applicability of the symbolic package. For the numeric package, the Green´s dyadics for a particular three-layered spherical isotropic multilayered medium were generated as an illustration. These packages have been successfully implemented, and future derivation of dyadic Green´s functions for these media may be performed.