Development of Macromodels For Large Scale Electromagnetic Simulation In the Time-Domain

Principal Investigator: Professor C Christopoulos

Starts: 8 January 2001
Ends: 7 January 2004

Value: £149,570

The proposed research programme aims at developing numerical models for fine features such as wires, wire bundles, thin sheets of metal, dielectric, or composite layers of these materials, which can be placed at any desired position unconstrained by the numerical mesh. In addition, the characterisation and the modelling of the materials will be done in a systematic, easily automated, way which results in a small number of modelling parameters. In this way a library of precalculated models of structural elements will be established for easy insertion into a large-scale field simulations. A number of different frequency encountered features will be studied and the resulting macromodels will be incorporated into time-domain field codes. An important part of this work will be the validation of the models against numerical and physical experiments.