Kurzbeschreibung
Presenting innovative, promising and unconventional techniques, Post-modern Electromagnetics outlines the essential tools for the creation of numerical methods. Hafner offers a comparative analysis of the fundamental computational electromagnetics methods and proposes future adaptive strategies. Complementary to Max-1: A Visual Electromagnetics Platform, this unique text challenges current thinking and provides guidance through the solution of practical problems. Features Include:
* Outline of Maxwell theory from simple material properties to complex media and wave equations
* Discussion of intelligent optimization strategies such as genetic algorithms designed to improve the performance of existing techniques
* Applications section demonstrating solutions in statics, scattering, gratings, antenna, antenna arrays, guided waves, resonators, coupling and waveguide discontinuities
* Explanation of the background to numerical methods showing how the various approaches to computational electromagnetics can be generalized and combined
Students and researchers interested in advanced numerical approaches and design engineers developing new codes for computational electromagnetics will benefit from this exploration of creative electromagnetics solutions.
Synopsis
This complementary text to "MaX-1: A Visual Electromagnetics Platform for PCs" also serves as a stand-alone text offering an introduction to modern computational electromagnetics methods based on numeric, semi-analytic and analytic Maxwell solvers. Coverage spans all theories and tools that are important for computational electromagnetics, including chapters on mathematics, numerical methods, Maxwell theory, etc. Deliberately intended not to be another electromagnetics text, the author explains how to invent and develop numerical techniques, also how existing techniques can be analyzed, compared, improved, and adapted to special applications. The book discusses specialities in the modelling of various applications, including statics, scattering, gratings, antenna, antenna arrays, guided waves on arbitrary structures, resonators, mode coupling, waveguide discontinuities, both frequency and time domain solutions; boundary methods as well as domain methods will be considered The text focuses on two main methods: finite differences (a domain method) and MMP (a boundary method).
It covers all theory and tools important to modern computational electromagnetics and teaches users to invent and develop numerical techniques. It also demonstrates how existing techniques can be analyzed, compared, improved and adapted to special conditions, and describes special, advanced techniques that can be applied to any method for improving its performance.
