Syllabus 2008/2009 ETI260

Syllabus academic year 2008/2009
(Created 2008-07-17.)

COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS

ETI260

Higher education credits: 6. Grading scale: TH. Level: A (Second level). Language of instruction: The course will be given in Swedish. Optional for: E4, E4rn, F4, F4tf, F4tvb, Pi4. Course coordinator: Mats Gustafsson, Mats.Gustafsson@eit.lth.se, Inst för elektro- och informationsteknik. Recommended prerequisits: ETE110 Modelling and Simulation in Field Theory or ETI015 Electromagnetic Fields, Advanced Course or ETE055 Electromagnetic Fields, Advanced Course. Assessment: Project and hand in problems. Further information: The course is given every second year. The course will be given autumn 2008. Home page: http://www.eit.lth.se/course/eti260.

Aim
Electromagnetic theory is based on Maxwell's equations. These equations must be solved to enhance the understanding and to develop and improve applications such as antennas and imaging systems.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

be familiar with the basic numerical methods used to analyze electromagnetic problems.

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

use the finite difference time domain method (FDTD), finite element method (FEM), and the method of moments (MoM) to analyze electromagnetic problems.

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

judge pros and cons of different numerical methods.

Contents
Electromagnetic theory is based on Maxwells equations. In this course, we analyse the most commonly used numerical methods for the solution of these partial difference methods. The numerical methods include: spectral methods, finite differences in the time domain (FDTD), finite element method (FEM), method of moments (MoM), and high frequency approximations (GO and GTD).

Literature
Bondeson A, Rylander T, Ingelström P: Computational Electromagnetics. Springer. 2005. ISBN: 978-0387261584
Lecture notes.