Perfect Electric Conductor
The
Perfect Electric Conductor
boundary condition
is a special case of the electric field boundary condition that sets the tangential component of the electric field to zero. It is used for the modeling of a lossless metallic surface, for example, a ground plane or as a symmetry type boundary condition.
It imposes symmetry for magnetic fields and antisymmetry for electric fields and electric currents. It supports induced electric surface currents and thus any prescribed or induced electric currents (volume, surface, or edge currents) flowing into a perfect electric conductor boundary is automatically balanced by induced surface currents.
