Implement the theory of Maxwellian circuits to spiral antennas

The main idea of Maxwellian circuits is that any wire structure, such as a thin wire antenna or a microstrip structure, can be represented by equivalent distributed circuits, the solution of which is identical to the solution of Maxwell´s equations of that structure. Such circuits are said to be Maxwellian . In this paper, the Maxwellian circuits are implemented into a curved structure, i.e., spiral antennas. Since a spiral antenna has much stronger dispersion and mutual couplings than a straight antenna, the most challenging thing for the spiral antenna is how to realize the broadband equivalent circuits. Numerical results for the two-arm Archimedian spiral antenna show that the solutions of its Maxwellian circuits over a quite wide frequency band are the same as those obtained by the conventional integral equations, but solving the circuits represented by the differential equations is much more efficient than solving the integral equations.