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By Hermann Anton Haus and James R. Melcher. Prentice-Hall, 1989; MIT hosts the online text.

Publication record: ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-6-001-electromagnetic-fields-and-energy-spring-2008/a1b1a3744120e499a53cb11c09848298_preface.pdf

Hermann Anton Haus was an electrical engineer whose research ranged from quantum optics to optical communication systems and ultrashort laser pulses. His work on optical solitons helped connect nonlinear wave propagation with the transmission of information through optical fibers.^[ref]

With James R. Melcher, he wrote Electromagnetic Fields and Energy by Hermann A. Haus and James R. Melcher, a text that links field equations with concrete devices and demonstrations. Its magnetic circuit analysis, for example, shows how geometry and constitutive assumptions turn an electromagnetic field problem into an approximate engineering model.^[ref]

James R. Melcher was an electrical engineer whose work helped define continuum electromechanics: the interaction of electromagnetic fields with deformable materials and flowing fluids. His applications included energy conversion, flow measurement and the control of industrial processes.^[ref]

With Hermann Anton Haus, he wrote Electromagnetic Fields and Energy by Hermann A. Haus and James R. Melcher. A central engineering theme is the relation between a full field description and a justified approximation. In a magnetic circuit, for example, geometry and permeability assumptions determine when a small set of circuit-like variables can represent the spatial fields.^[ref]