Current Distributions Inside the Cylindrical Model with the Internal and the External Tissues Having Different Conductivities in the Electric Fields

Abstract

The health effect of the weak current induced in the human body as a result of the interaction between human body and power line electric fields has been investigated. A human model (cylinder+semisphere) filled with tissues having different conductivities was used to analyze the internal current densities. In this analysis, only the magnitudes of the induced current densities were analyzed.
In this paper, the finite element method is applied to the analysis of the distributions of the horizontal and vertical currents induced in the cylindrical model. The calculation method is verified by comparing the calculated results with the experimental ones obtained elsewhere. The basic characteristics of the induced current distributions in the cylindrical model with the two tissues having different conductivities have been made clear.