Multisource model of ship electric field

A steel-hulled ship in sea water produces an electric field around itself. The source of this field are electrochemical processes and ship’s cathodic protection. The analysis of the electric field around the ship is important by the reason of the ship’s identification and counter-mine protection. The paper presents a simplified model of the ship’s multisource electric field, which allows to calculate the electric field distribution in the so-called distant zone around the ship in an approximate way using a PC, during time lasting from few up to several dozen of minutes.