5.3. Steady regime#
Steady regime - in a Eulerian description - allows for steady currents, but non-varying fields in an Eulerian description \(\partial_t \equiv 0\).
Continuity equation of electric charge.
\[\nabla \cdot \vec{j} = 0\]
Maxwell’s equations.
\[\begin{split}\begin{cases}
\nabla \cdot \vec{e} = \dfrac{\rho}{\varepsilon_0} \\
\nabla \times \vec{e} = \vec{0} \\
\nabla \cdot \vec{b} = 0 \\
\nabla \times \vec{b} = \mu_0 \vec{j}
\end{cases}\end{split}\]
Potentials.
\[\begin{split}\begin{aligned}
\vec{b} & = \nabla \times \vec{a} \\
\vec{e} & = - \nabla \phi \\
\end{aligned}\end{split}\]