Radio-Frequency Human Exposure Assessment (eBook)

Joe Wiart has been the head of the Chair C2M, "Characterization, Modelling and Mastering of RF exposure", at Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France since 2015. He has been the head of the WHIST Lab, common lab of Orange Labs and the Institute Mines-Telecom, since 2009 and was the head of the dosimetry research unit at Orange between 1997 and 2015. He is a member of several standardization bodies. His research interests include dosimetry, numerical methods and statistics applied in electromagnetism and stochastic dosimetry.

Preface vii

Chapter 1. Human RF Exposure and Communication Systems 1

1.1 Introduction 1

1.2 Metric and limits relative to human exposure 3

1.3 European standards and regulation framework 36

1.4 Conclusion 39

Chapter 2. Computational Electromagnetics Applied to Human Exposure Assessment 41

2.1 Introduction 41

2.2 Finite difference in time domain to solve the Maxwell equations 42

2.3 FDTD and human exposure assessment 71

2.4 RF exposure assessment 103

2.5 Conclusion 117

Chapter 3. Stochastic Dosimetry 119

3.1 Motivations 119

3.2 The challenge of variability for numerical dosimetry 120

3.3 Stochastic dosimetry and polynomial chaos expansion 122

3.4 PC and numerical dosimetry 125

3.5 Calculation of the PC coefficients 131

3.6 Design of experiments 135

3.7 Predictive model validation 140

3.8 Surrogate modeling for dosimetry 142

3.9 SA and signature of the PC 150

3.10 Parsimonious quintile estimation 155

3.11 Conclusion 155

Conclusion 157

Bibliography 159

Index 179