This compendium contains twenty - nine refereed papers written over a period of just over forty years between 1963 and 2004. Of the total, twenty - three are full papers and six are short papers. Eighteen of them were published in international journals and eleven appeared in Australian journals. Eighteen are single author papers written by the candidate and in the remaining eleven, authorship is shared with two or more others. In instances where there are multiple authors I have indicated the portion that I claim as my own contribution. To some extent this must necessarily be subjective ; joint authors engaged in a common enterprise will usually discuss their work as it proceeds and afterwards it is not always easy to pinpoint exactly who was responsible for what amid the synergy of their interaction. The common thread that binds the papers is engineering electromagnetics and in most instances they directly address topics in either the guided and unguided wave domains, although in three instances the connection is more derivative. During my professional career I have produced a considerable number of limited circulation reports either for use within the agency in which I was employed or as the deliverables in contracts for which the agency had been contracted, as well as a number of conference papers. Of these two classes I no longer have any accurate record but a number of the papers later formed the basis of contributions to the refereed literature. Those offered for examination here are about half that number. I have subdivided the papers over nine sections bound together by some common sub - theme. A brief review is provided by way of introduction to each section and preceding each paper I have added some further comments. In these I have attempted not to simply restate information better accessed by reading the paper itself but to set it in context with other work and to indicate what its contribution to the technology of the time of its writing is seen to have been. This is of some importance in a compendium that spans so long a time. What is state of the art at one time is bedded down technology at some later date or its importance has been eclipsed by the appearance of other radically newer approaches. It is, however, the candidate ' s hope to be judged at least in part on the basis of the significance of the work at the time of its publication. Independently of the category into which I have placed any paper, a general aim that I have tried to carry with me in all my work is as close an appeal to physical principles as possible and not treat problems as solely mathematical exercises. How successful this has been is, of course, for others to judge. However it is only seldom that any real world problem can be solved without simplifying approximations and, particularly where the aim is understanding, simplicity is frequently at least as important as accuracy. Papers that appear in this compendium have been chosen to illustrate these aims. / Thesis (D.E.)--School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2004.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/263724 |
| Date | January 2004 |
| Creators | Green, Harry Edward |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
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