Mathematical Modeling of the Impact of Cell Phone Radiation on the Human Brain

Authors: Azeez Abdullah Barzinjy^1&2 & Najim Hama-Amin² & Ari Othman^2
1Department of Physics, College of Education, Salahaddin University, Erbil, Iraq
²Department of Physics Education, Faculty of Education, Ishik University, Erbil, Iraq

Abstract:  The human brain is conscious to tiny variations in temperature. Temperature rises have impact on enzyme mission, which lead to expected undesirable organic repercussions. Alive tissues are insulating materials, which are exposed to insulation heating through radiation. The cell phone is a communal basis of radiation. Ordinary people normally keep their mobile phones beside their ears, which might aggravate the impacts of radiation, and then, temperature alteration. The level at which point tissue engrosses heat from radiation is known as the specific absorption rate, i.e. SAR. Over interpretations of SAR standards, the thermal implication of the electromagnetic wave heating of insincere tissue inside the brain can be calculated. The aim of this investigation is to model heating of tissue sheets inside the brain caused by mobile phone radiation subjection by means of COMSOL Multiphysics so as to assess effects of mobile phone use on brain occupation. This can be done by means of leading equations for electromagnetic waves and temperature. Also, Maxwell’s equation for electromagnetic waves has been utilized to control the electric field and the SAR that would regulate heat generation relations. The 3D heat equation was then utilized to govern the temperature rising inside the brain after an explicit time period. 3D was essential meanwhile there is no regularity in the head in the attendance of a mobile phone. To precisely pretend thermo controlling procedures in the head, metabolic heat generation from these tissues and convective blood pour were comprised in the heat calculation.

Keywords: Cell Phone Radiation, Mobile Phone, Human Brain, Specific Absorption Rate (SAR), COMSOL Multiphysics

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doi: 10.23918/eajse.v3i3p52

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