Electromagnetic Energy Balance Equations and Poynting Theorem

Abstract

Poynting theorem plays a very important role in analyzing electromagnetic phenomena. The electromagnetic power flux density is usually expressed with the Poynting vector. However, since Poynting theorem basically focuses on the power balance in a system, it is not so efficient in some situations to use it for evaluating the electromagnetic energies. The energy balance issue for time varying fields is revisited in this paper. Energy balance equations are introduced and a modified method for evaluating power flux is proposed.